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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The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.
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I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.
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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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We should have no immigration at all for a certain time. Then we can look again.
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I think the sooner that all of us in society stop accepting any type of bullying or harassment from other people - in spite of people's social standing or net worth or whatever it is - the sooner it will stop.
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The face we choose to miss, Be it but for a day- As absent as a hundred years When it has rode away.
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I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.
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Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable.
