George Washington Quotes
As the first of every thing, in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent, it is devoutly wished on my part, that these precedents may be fixed on true principles.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.
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I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.
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When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.
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Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.
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I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked, and they were all very good company.
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The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.
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For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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'Bagdad Cafe' was a film that changed many, many people's lives... how they saw themselves and how they looked at their life situation. I thought I made a little movie. All the mail that I get is about how it changed lives, and that's wonderful.
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
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You put a lot of pressure on your defenders to be able to hold the fort when you go forward.
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We tend to forget in the West that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than Al Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims.
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I was just doing bits and pieces of acting in the U.K. I'd been in the film 'Breaking and Entering' - Anthony Minghella gave me my start and I miss him dearly. Then I made the trip out to L.A., during one of their pilot seasons, which was when they were developing 'Gossip Girl,' and I auditioned, and things came together.
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The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?
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Philanthropic dollars are precious resources, so it's our responsibility to consider how we use them carefully. Yet few of us spend enough time doing so.
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I definitely was in the sequined, bedazzled era. We would put blue eye shadow up our eyebrows and glitter all over our faces. I probably put more effort into my skating outfits than my clothes.
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Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt.
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I don't need to scare the other athletes. When I'm running, I will scare them.
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I'm quite claustrophobic, and I don't like everyone crowding around and shouting the same questions.
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With three fires in a matter of hours, we knew the case had to be treated as a priority. Our patrol officers went into the complex and spoke with everyone they could. They gathered a lot of information.
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I had a great start in television; the first thing I did was an episode of Performance called The Entertainer with Michael Gambon playing Archie Rice.
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The experience of celebrity is gradually being democratized.
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Success is uncommon, not to be found by the common man. I'm looking for uncommon people.
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As the first of every thing, in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent, it is devoutly wished on my part, that these precedents may be fixed on true principles.
