George Washington Quotes
The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.
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I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
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I don't think the lifestyle that I have, the things going on in my life right now, you could put that on any 23-year-old kid. But, you know, I was raised right, and I'm prepared for whatever.
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My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
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The Tea Party has very close affinities with independent third-party movements like the George Wallace movement. The Tea Party is still inchoate, still trying to figure out what it's going to become.
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We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.
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Life is one big love story with hundreds of little love stories within it.
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I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time.
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We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays.
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Different people get different things out of the images. It doesn't matter what it's about, all that matters is how it makes you feel.
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In the Marine Corps, everything had a purpose.
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Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.
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I love running the floor and doing crazy dunks. I think I bring a lot of enthusiasm to the team.
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You can look at someone and get to know their music and say, 'This is someone who I want to work with.'
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I wasn't a great background singer.
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We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.
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Two magnitudes whether commensurable or incommensurable, balance at distances reciprocally proportional to the magnitudes.
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Writing has been challenging at times but that's where all the growth is. I know I'm in the right place if it's difficult. Something a British writer said to me once was: "If the project doesn't make him wobble, he doesn't take it." You have to be uncomfortable to grow.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.
