George Washington Quotes
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.
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I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
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It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.
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Coming from Australia and playing rugby, you just think that soccer is a bit soft, but I'll tell you what - it's not. It's rough as guts. It's great.
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I'm looking for a world where love will no longer be extraordinary.
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Because I was big, I didn't have to listen to anyone doubting me. I was just considered good at football or whatever, there were no questions about it.
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The hardest part of writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was probably the sheer amount of iambic pentameter and tiptoeing around certain scenes I knew would be hot-button issues for 'Star Wars' fans.
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One can imagine having a procedural rule that anything ambiguous should be treated as the Taj Mahal unless we see that it is labelled 'fog'...The motorist replies: 'What sort of rule is this? Surely the best guarantee I can have that the fog is fog is if I fail to see the sign saying 'fog' because of the fog.'
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In men this blunder still you find,-All think their little set mankind.
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Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn him from the glaring fact.
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He was not a man who prattled readily, especially in a foreign tongue. He gave the impression that each word was excavated from his interior by some up-to-date process of mining.
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Mere abuse is no criticism.
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According to the Upanishads, the complete aspect of Truth is in the reconciliation on the finite and the infinite, of everchanging things and the eternal spirit of perfection. When in our life and work the harmony between these two is broken, then either our life is thinned into a shadow, or it becomes gross with accumulations.
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For about as long as I've been writing fiction, I've kept a record of the books I've read.
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If you make decisions based upon people's reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices.
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Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have I found in them that content which I had figured beforehand in my mind. A strong reason, if we well consider it, why we should disencumber ourselves of vain desires.
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'Milk' doesn't imply that all gay men who stayed in the closet were cowards.
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
