George Washington Quotes

It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.

George Washington

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• The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

  

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• I'm a child of the Sixties.

  

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• Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

  

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• My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.

  

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• Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

  

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• I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.

  

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• We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.

  

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• Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?

  

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• There are so many people that say they are actors and they don't spend for 5 minutes a day working on their craft. You need to train and need to take classes to keep your tools sharp. I'm always in class, whether it's theater or drama workshops.

  

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• Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.

  

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• I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics.

  

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• When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.

  

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• Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

  

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• There are a lot of other things in this world that can and will bring me joy. Acting is one of them.

  

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• Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.

  

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• I want to release six songs, let people listen to those, let them chill for a second, do a tour, release another six songs, chill for a second and then take my favorite four, put them on the album, and add some more.

  

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• Let's just start with the word 'diva.' It is obviously a sexist slight - a term that is only applied to women, almost always in a derogatory way. It's usually applied to women who are viewed as overly ambitious. It is applied to demanding women, to women who follow their own path.

  

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• We became more familiar with Bernard Leach, and with this familiarity came, I wouldn't say contempt, but certainly an awareness that everything that he said was not necessarily what we were thinking. That doesn't mean it was wrong, but Leach was a person out of a different generation.

  

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• Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

  

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• In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.

  

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• We are a company built for fair and open trade.

  

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• It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.

  

  George Washington
  • Children
  • Father
  • Brother