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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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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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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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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I thought-To lose all this forever?And I hallucinated Aenea’s voice saying To lose all this forever is the essence of being human, my love.
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Take an Indian home to lunch.
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I cannot control what the Republicans leak and what they are contending.
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I don't really sell many records.
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Never invest in anything that eats or needs painting.
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I wanted to study painting and become a painter, but I had a huge flip-over in my life when I was about 18 or 19. I was part of a criminal environment; I got arrested and convicted, and I had to start thinking in a new way.
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May not machines carry out something which ought to be described as thinking but which is very different from what a man does?
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I walk up a dune to a beach and look out to sea, but it's 100km away. The ships lie askew in their dry beds, at anchor for ever. Today is my son's birthday. Thousands of miles from here, his healthy lungs are blowing out candles. I should be there but I'm here with another boy, who puts his face close to mine and laughs. I smile back but realise he can't see it, because I'm wearing an antiseptic muzzles to protect me from his breath.
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Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable.
