George Washington Quotes

Soap is another article in great demand--the Continental allowance is too small, and dear, as every necessary of life is now got, a soldier's pay will not enable him to purchase, by which means his consequent dirtiness adds not a little to the disease of the Army.

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• The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Strong
  • Ego
  • Insanity

• I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
  • Why
  • Man

• Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Animals
  • Planet
  • Companions

• I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Guy
  • Future
  • Crazy

• I don't want to set the world up for surprises.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Up
  • World
  • Want

• I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Like
  • Take
  • Sensitive

• It's hard to write a comedy sketch.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Comedy
  • Write
  • Sketch

• A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Mind
  • Mouth
  • Flow

• You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Way
  • You
  • Yourself

• I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.

  

  Young Thug
  • Ghetto
  • Then
  • Mansions

• Pressure selling is firmly rooted in American economic life, and I'm sorry it is, for it should not be necessary. Some people think part of the panic following 1929 was due to too much pressure in selling.

  

  Vash Young
  • People
  • Life
  • American

• A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Different
  • Movie
  • Want

• Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts.

  

  Ian Hart
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Music
  • Earth
  • Wonder

• You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.

  

  Gale Harold
  • Character
  • You
  • Either

• The fact of the matter is the Arab elites are more inclined to accommodate our wishes because of certain overlapping interests that are often financial. That is not the case with the Arab masses.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Financial
  • Matter
  • Wishes

• If you're not challenged, you'll get bored.

  

  Victor Webster
  • You
  • Bored
  • Challenged

• I love candy!

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Candy

• That's the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Want
  • I Can

• The kind of system Kickstarter uses has been used for hundreds of years. Unlike Medici-style patronage, where the richest people in town give large amounts of money, Kickstarter's system relies on the general public for funding projects, and rewards those backers.

  

  Perry Chen
  • People
  • Money
  • Style

• One of the things that I find so exciting about life is that you're constantly surprised. You never know what's going to happen, and it's certainly like that making movies; every once in a while, one will come along that transcends all of your expectations.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Life

• Soap is another article in great demand--the Continental allowance is too small, and dear, as every necessary of life is now got, a soldier's pay will not enable him to purchase, by which means his consequent dirtiness adds not a little to the disease of the Army.

  

  George Washington
  • Life
  • Mean
  • Army