George Washington Quotes
I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving.
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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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I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself, and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
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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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We all know what it's like to go through growing pains and have awkward moments talking to someone you have a crush on.
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To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.
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Peter was 2 years and 10 months old when we began to study him. He was afraid of a white rat, and this fear extended to a rabbit, a fur coat, a feather, cotton wool, etc., but not to wooden blocks and similar toys.
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I've gotten a lot of people saying. 'That is awesome. You're so brave.' I hate when people say brave. I'm not brave. I'm just living my life. Why is that brave?
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In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving.
