George Washington Quotes

We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government.

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• Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Work
  • Great
  • Pretty

• Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Study

• I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • People
  • Think
  • Cool

• It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Good
  • Book
  • Worry

• 'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • World
  • Writing
  • Guy

• I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Me
  • Never
  • Role

• In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Fly
  • Europe
  • Event

• We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Want
  • Rock
  • Jazz

• My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Soul
  • Deep
  • Rivers

• I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Son
  • Existence
  • Wealth

• Acting to me is real life - I don't act.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Life
  • Real
  • Me

• The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.

  

  Tania Raymonde
  • People
  • Work
  • Future

• I eat right and stay healthy as much as possible.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Right
  • Healthy
  • Possible

• What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Think
  • Use
  • Box

• It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Mind
  • True
  • Body

• Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't ask questions... You follow and obey.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Culture
  • You
  • Chinese

• Growing up, I would watch a movie on video and would go to the back of the VHS and locate the address for Universal Pictures or MGM or whatever. I'd write to the studios asking them if I could be in a movie. They never wrote me back.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Movie
  • Growing
  • Video

• If I were asked to say the most important things that lead to a successful life, I should say that, first of all, was integrity - unimpeachable integrity.

  

  Charles M. Schwab
  • Life
  • Important
  • Integrity

• I was so devastated by my second divorce that I had a nervous breakdown.

  

  Jane Fonda
  • Divorce

• In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • End
  • Dreams

• I don't really compare any of the characters I play; I try to go into them being very open to what the characters can offer and what I can bring to them and then bring a being to life.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Life
  • Play
  • Try

• Not a single muscle quivered On his radiantly evil face. Oh, I know: his delight Is the tense and passionate knowledge That he needs nothing, That I can refuse him nothing.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Knowledge
  • Single
  • Evil

• We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government.

  

  George Washington
  • World
  • Government
  • Progress