George Washington Quotes
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
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Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
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We would like a stable policy framework, and whatever incentives and tax structures are there should be made known to investors upfront. There should be credibility, clarity and continuity in both policy formulation and its implementation.
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The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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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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One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
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Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
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I'm more of a tough girl, and I'm attracted to things that reflect that in my perfumes. That means sandalwood, musk, amber, and vanilla notes.
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My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.
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I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.
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I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.
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I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.
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Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.
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When women are told that sexual harassment is 'part of the job' or when assistants of both sexes enable harassing behavior, they have bought into the culture that says such behavior is not just permissible, it is a desirable expression of power.
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The importance of building relationships among colleagues, of trying to create coalitions behind the issues that you are championing, was not something I ever had much insight into until I was elected and started serving in the Senate.
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I've learned that it's often the less obvious, yet pervasive and questionable, everyday behaviors of men in our industry that collectively make it inhospitable for women.
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Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man
