George Washington Quotes
Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle.
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There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes a strong alliance with the State of Israel.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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A label's typical plan would be to put something out that's safer and get fans, and then push buttons, but my idea is to push buttons first, scare off the people who are gonna be scared off, and then the right people will like you for who you really are, and stay with you.
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More and more what we're licensing, we're licensing on a global basis - even though the studios aren't orchestrated to sell that way yet, my bet is that they will.
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My parents have Google Alerts on me. So they'll often times send me an e-mail and be like, 'Hey did you know this?' And then I'll be like, 'Well, it is, like, my life. So yes, I did know that.' Or, 'That's not even true. I don't know where you read that.' I have Googled myself, yes. But my parents really have Google Alerts on me.
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I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.
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I love any excuse to come to New York - when it's not February.
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Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were friends and the last people I expected would predecease me. They were, in a sense, casualties of fame.
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My parents don't have any showbusiness links. They are so far away from it.
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I have a tendency, just because I'm an ambitious person, to get impatient with things and want them to be moving faster then they are.
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I love Romney. It is not his fault that he is the son of a successful governor and makes $20 million a year.
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I always liked red. It's a picker-upper.
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If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.
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I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.
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Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.
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On the retail side, I particularly want to emphasize the use of the unique ID, Aadhaar, in building individual credit histories. This will be the foundation of a revolution in retail credit.
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Sacred religion! mother of form and fear.
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Never before have I lived through a storm like the one this night. … The sea has a look of indescribable grandeur, especially when the sun falls on it. One feels as if one is dissolved and merged into Nature. Even more than usual, one feels the insignificance of the individual, and it makes one happy.
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I don't know any guitar player, any of the real greats, who don't rate Joni Mitchell up there with the best of them.
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Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.
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If you have been wise and successful I congratulate you. Unless you are unable to forget how successful you have been, then I pity you.
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The high-rise was a huge machine designed to serve, not the collective body of tenants, but the individual resident in isolation.
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Having a connection and chemistry with a director is really key.
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Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle.
