George Washington Quotes
Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable.
Quotes to Explore
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I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.
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I love film, but it's bringing me away from music. Singing is what I'm probably most passionate about.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I'd love to be in a feature film, and I don't just mean in a starring role - it could be a small part. And I would like to act in television, to do comedy and drama.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.
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The magic words 'on the Internet,' if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny.
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I've always been a Nike person.
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My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.
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AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.
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I'm open to getting more equipment, but I really won't have time to look into that until after the tour.
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There’s something to be said for doing one thing right.
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He looked at her Something Turned cancerous He was in love.
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You find, as the years go on and you have some success, people kind of start to say yes when they should say no.
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I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters. More than simple habit, it's about what the commitment to expressing your thoughts and feelings in writing says about the character of the writer. About the joy such notes bring to the reader.
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Make it your profitable habit to carefully study facial expressions. You can see the entire human drama in a face; you can tell its owner's history.
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Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable.
