George Washington Quotes

The great mass of our citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.

George Washington

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• I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of both storytelling and jokes.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Done
  • Think

• I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Long
  • Progress
  • Boy

• I never feel insecure when there are two female leads.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Never
  • Feel
  • Two

• I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.

  

  Jack W. Szostak
  • Hope
  • Success
  • Reading

• We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Heroes
  • Conflicts
  • Tale

• Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Important
  • Real
  • Me

• I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Funny
  • Air

• It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Speak
  • Actor
  • Rare

• I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Power
  • Doing
  • Deserve

• There is only one me.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Me
  • Only

• Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.

  

  O. Henry
  • Live
  • Country
  • Citizenship

• It seems to me we have been in a rhetorical arms race in this country, with each side unwilling to lay down its weapons for fear – usually justified – the other side would beat them to a pulp.

  

  Pat Sajak
  • Country
  • Fear
  • Race

• The decision to become an individual, to allow oneself to be moved by the deepest impulses of the self rather than the social consensus, can only be made with fear and trembling.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Fear
  • Decision

• For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it is always the same. No matter how wonderful a recording is, I know that I couldn't live with it-even of my own music-with the same nuances forever.

  

  Aaron Copland
  • Great
  • Music
  • Important

• Getting up at four in the morning to tend the farm while the world is quiet - feeding animals, mucking stalls, gathering eggs, filling water troughs, checking fences, letting animals out into the field - is a high point to my day.

  

  Chip Gaines
  • Up
  • World
  • High

• I think it is possible to be friends even if you're competing. You know, there's so many guys in rooms that try to psych each other out, and it doesn't work. It only hinders their work.

  

  Jake Abel
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Psych

• Education is the key to the future.

  

  Alek Wek
  • Future
  • Education

• I express myself the way I want. Sometimes, I know, I do put up posts that might be insensitive, but I am not someone who deletes a post. If my posts end up hurting people, I don't have any qualms apologising, and I have done that in the past.

  

  Karan Patel
  • People
  • Up
  • Done

• My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian foxhole reading about the Normandy invasion and observing to his buddy that: 'The hell this ain't the most important hole in the world. I'm in it.'

  

  Bill Mauldin
  • World
  • Important
  • Reading

• I get the, you know, 'In my generation, we all had victory gardens, we all participated in this country's success.' It's that kind of sentiment that I hear from everybody, that we're all in this together.

  

  Patty Murray
  • Country
  • Together
  • Success

• In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Work
  • Words

• One thing I did not want to change, even if we got serious, work had to be enjoyable on a daily basis. We all had to come to work on the balls of our feet and go up the stairs two at a time.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• Life has good and bad times. And to get through them you have to battle. Life is not all smooth. I've had my bumps and bruises, like anybody, but I've always tried to look at life like a glass that's half full.

  

  Dick Vitale
  • Life
  • Good
  • Bad

• The great mass of our citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.

  

  George Washington