George Washington Quotes
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
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My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules. I didn't know it, because I hadn't been in the business.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
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There are lots of reasons for that gap between men's and women's wages but to me, the big one is the work-family issue. Trying to juggle children and a job is tough under any circumstances, but especially if you're shooting for the kind of career that involves long hours at work and being on call 24-7.
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I didn't really feel that there were any filler tracks on 'The Red Shoes,' but if I were to do that album now, I wouldn't make it so long.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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We all have the archetype inside us of the enlightened being.
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I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.
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I was surprised by how much I liked 'Hacksaw Ridge' and its depth.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.
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I grew up middle class - my dad was a high school teacher; there were five kids in our family. We all shared a nine-hundred-square-foot home with one bathroom. That was exciting. And my wife is Irish Catholic and also very, very barely middle class.
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Society is so quick to encourage women to see each other as competition, but I think it's important we celebrate and embrace the pieces of our identity we share with others.
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A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.
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A novel can enlarge the empathy and imagination of both its author and its reader, and my experience, that sense of enlargement is most intense when I'm transported beyond the narrow limits of my daily life.
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Make your own dream .I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.
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The greatest enemy of mankind is his ignorance of the inherent money power in all of us. When the realization of this comes to man, he will like Samson, push down the walls of his prison.
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It is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.
