George Washington Quotes
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.George Washington
Quotes to Explore
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Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
Earl Nightingale -
In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.
Rafael Vinoly -
I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
Nancy Lublin -
No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
Nathan Fillion -
I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.
Laura Dern -
Not all children have the anchor of a strong family.
Kate Middleton
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The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.
Carl Hiaasen -
Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.
J. Philippe Rushton -
Everything I do is a reflection of the duality within me. Musically, I really love things that are very synthetic and unnatural. And I also like the organic and human... the intrinsic, I guess.
Zola Jesus -
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
When I was snowed under with the work of an idol, I didn't have time to think.
Namie Amuro
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I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.
Maeve Binchy -
Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
Adam McKay -
There's a lot of people out there who have seen us once somewhere in a pub or heard our songs late night on radio. We'd done four years of it before we'd even released a single. It's put us in good stead.
Dan Hawkins -
I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.
Dani Shapiro -
Our society loves raw character; we love raw women. We don't love our mother because she is hot and sexy: we love our mother because she is our mother. We love our granny because she is our granny. We value her. We don't remember anyone's face from our childhood; we love our granny's face.
Kangana Ranaut -
Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.
Oscar Wilde
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Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.
Yiannis Chryssomallis -
Work in the fields? Senator, I'm a house nigga.
Bill Maher -
Theater is where I have the most experience and feel most at home, but I'm really, really loving film.
Andre Holland -
To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
A. Bartlett Giamatti -
I think he was absolutely right not to go to UN last week... First things first - that is, values and people here in their local communities, and remembering all politics is local, and trusting people more.
Patricia Hewitt -
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.
George Washington