George Washington Quotes

I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving.

George Washington

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• I've always said I wanted to play in England. There was a struggle between Chelsea and United, but according to me, Chelsea has the best project.

  

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• I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!

  

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• I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week.

  

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• I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.

  

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• 'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.

  

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• My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.

  

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• My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.

  

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• The general market wants what I do.

  

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• Many people have this image of me. For a long time, I cared about that.

  

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• You know, people really don't understand what actors do.

  

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• 'The Haunted Man' is about communication barriers between men and women, and in that song it's a woman's wait for her husband to come back from war. The vision for me was of a group of men and women on the opposite sides of two cliffs, trying to move or sing to each other and communicate, but they're kind of misfiring.

  

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• My 2005 calendar we actually did a shoot in Lake Las Vegas. Since I had requests do some swimwear and athletic shots we tried them and they came out good so we inserted them into the new calendar.

  

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  • Good
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• It was such a pleasure to work with Eugene Levy. What a treat. That's a guy I grew up watching as a kid. Guys like that, they were hilarious and didn't have to be super vile or X-rated.

  

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• He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.

  

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• The President is an elected king, but the fact that he is elected has proved to be of far less significance in the course of political evolution than the fact that he is pragmatically a king.  …  Kings have often been selected this way in European history, and the Roman Emperor was regularly chosen by election.

  

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• Privilege tends to soften the brain, or so I’ve observed.

  

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• Frankly, I think there is something wrong with Jawlensky's dots in his paintings, then. Anybody can pick up that style if they want to.

  

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• …Tell me, has anything odd happened to you recently? What do you mean, odd?' Unusual. Deviating from the customary. Something outside the usual parameters of normalcy. An occurrence of unprecedented weird.

  

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• The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It was not granted by monarchs, it was not gained for us by aristocracies ; but it sprang from the people, and, with an immortal instinct, it has always worked for the people.

  

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• Ironically, it is the talented who have high aspirations, which are possible but exceedingly difficult to realize, who are especially vulnerable to self-dissatisfaction despite notable achievements.

  

  Albert Bandura
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• The only guys that make it through are the guys that make it through are the guys that have a complete control of their ego where they tap out in the beginning, all the time, you're always losing in the beginning... Your ego can get bruised if you don't have control of it. So what ends up happens is Jiu Jitsu is the ultimate douchebag filter.

  

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• If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Good
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• I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving.

  

  George Washington
  • Study
  • Brave
  • Duty