George Washington Quotes
I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving.
Quotes to Explore
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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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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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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All spiritual things are to be treated with sacred dignity. Humility and meekness are in accordance with the life of Christ, but they are to be shown in a dignified way.
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Acting is a whole boatload of fun, but I prefer to do it on my own terms.
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I understood from a very young age that school was important and that my parents were making great sacrifices for me. Every morning I saw my father get up and go to a job that he didn't really like. They came to France for the same reasons all immigrants move to another country - so their kids could have a better way of life.
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I reject what I see as flat-footed accounts of the fundamental structure of the world, where we somehow assume that, because ordinary experience involves middle-sized objects in space and time, that fundamental reality must be essentially like that.
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I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving.
