George Washington Quotes
The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations And Religions; whom we shall wellcome to a participation of all our rights and previleges...
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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When I wake up on a Sunday morning with a slight hangover, in the gym with no makeup on, that's who Natalie Dormer really is. The girl next door who gets a spot on her forehead occasionally.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.
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Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
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I love Feist. I love Francoise Hardy. She was a French singer-songwriter in the '60s who was pretty huge. I think I'm drawn to her sincerity. I love Fiona Apple, too - she's quirky and really honest in her lyrics.
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Lee Ann Womack is from near where I grew up in East Texas, so I've always looked up to her. I sang a lot of Dolly Parton as a kid and a lot of traditional western swing, like Patsy Cline and Roy Rogers.
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We are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ.
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The camera and I have always had good chemistry.
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All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.
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Do I have to use my feet? Can I knock the window out with my head?
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We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.
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Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. He was the master of suspense, certainly, but visually you would get a lot of information from what he would do with the camera and what he would allow you to see as the story was unfolding.
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I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.
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...a detailed mathematical discussion shows that whatever kind of wave-packet we select to represent the electron, the product of the two uncertainties of position and momentum can never be less than h, which is precisely what Heisenberg found...
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The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male in America than Jay-Z does, by far. And that's not a diss to Jay-Z. The crime rate in the black community was high before hip hop. Rapping about it is just a reflection of the life a lot of people are living.
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I love the U.K. It's so different over there from America, you know, the culture and stuff. It's pretty awesome.
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Please write that they were really, really nice - extremely nice - at Immigration. The court where they swore you in, the people were beautiful.
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The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations And Religions; whom we shall wellcome to a participation of all our rights and previleges...
