George Washington Quotes

In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.

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• My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.

  

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• You kind of think people get sick of you after a while, but apparently not.

  

  Patricia Heaton
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• A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
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• I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • World
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• We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Money
  • Free
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• Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Democracy
  • Form
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• I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Like

• Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Man
  • Determination
  • Quiet

• Ironically, I'm a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can't lie!

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Lie
  • Liar
  • Too Much

• When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Up
  • Country
  • Small

• I owe everything to France.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Everything
  • France
  • Owe

• In Zurich, in a cafe overlooking the Limmat, I ate butter-drenched white asparagus pulled from the ground that morning; it had the aftertaste of champagne. I've been able to appreciate epic meals in San Francisco, New Orleans, Berlin, Paris, Las Vegas.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Morning
  • Paris
  • Appreciate

• I've always had a thing for old movies, old Hollywood. I've always just loved watching Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo. In all of those old movies from the '40s and '50s, women put themselves together so well, with a little bit of drama and elegance. That was fascinating to me growing up.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Women
  • Drama
  • Movies

• As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.

  

  Nash Grier
  • Time
  • Learning
  • Mistake

• When I was making my first films, I was very interested in Hollywood B movies.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Movies
  • First
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• Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Religion
  • Politics
  • More

• I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.

  

  Kate Flannery
  • People
  • Women
  • Funny

• I want people to remember that Pakistan is my country. It is like my mother, and I love it dearly. Even if its people hate me, I will still love it.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Country
  • Remember

• I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct.

  

  Samuel Alito
  • Rules
  • Ethics
  • Legal

• shane: so is world war fifteen over out there? claire:i think so

  

  Rachel Caine
  • World
  • War
  • Conversation

• If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • World
  • Together
  • Amazing

• There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices. But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Done
  • Help
  • Voice

• In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.

  

  George Washington
  • Government
  • Voice
  • Republican