George Washington Quotes
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
George Washington
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
Katee Sackhoff
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
Carice van Houten
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Young people really want you to give them a road map, and they will follow it to a tee. If you tell them, 'These are the eight steps you have to take to be successful,' they will do all eight very earnestly.
Dana Perino
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The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio.
Eddie Murphy
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It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He knows that all the doctrines cannot possibly be true, but he would view them with toleration if he were asked merely to let them alone for the benefit of the masses whom they can help and succour.
H. P. Lovecraft
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
Yves Saint Laurent
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My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.
Langston Hughes
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How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are almost on a level with the uplands. It throws itself on the leaves of autumn, and holds them down in security from the strongest winds.
W. H. Davies
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You can't play a guy who's just a snake, because what do you draw on?
J. K. Simmons
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Being a nice person is about courtesy: you're friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in order to give, they fail to set boundaries, rarely say no, and become pushovers, letting others walk all over them.
Adam Grant
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I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger.
Karel Reisz
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We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.
Oliver Joseph Lodge
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I'm trying to do the best I can. I'm not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today.
Mark Spitz
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My hope is that we're going to end up with a far more tolerant society, where the erosion of privacy, to the extent it erodes, will be offset by increased tolerance.
Peter Thiel
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Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.
Dan Millman
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
Barbara Bush
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Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God.
D. Todd Christofferson
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I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
George Washington
