George Washington Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
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If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
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I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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Magic frightens people almost as much as it intrigues them.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.
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Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.
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I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues.
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I do think it's possible to change for the better.
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In the 1950s and 60s, geopolitical intrigues did not much engage masses in Asia and Africa; it was something for elites to sort out.
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I was lucky that it hit my shaft, and then my helmet, and I was lucky enough to get that breakaway.
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Anything negative that comes at me throughout the week, you just take it and put it in that box over there for motivation and use it on Sunday.
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One of the joys of teaching with the anthology is to watch the excitement grow as students, who may think the past dull and irrelevant, find how fresh and new and powerful are the kinds of writings that are hundreds of years old.
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Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.
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Our Revolution was born and raised in taverns.
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We had quitters during the Revolution too...we called them 'Kentuckians.'
