George Washington Quotes
The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.
Quotes to Explore
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.
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AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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God's blessing has been on America from the very beginning of this nation, and I believe God isn't done with America yet.
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My best friend is my husband.
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All my Dominican friends live in an area called Los Venaga. Their houses are shacks. They'd invite us over to dinner, and we'd sit in plastic chairs on the dirt inside a house.
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I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.
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The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
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When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.
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I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
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I think philanthropy is so much more in keeping with spirit of shouting someone out than a material reward.
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No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.
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As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed.
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I'm trying to open up my range and really sing more. With The Fugees initially, and even with 'Miseducation,' it was very hip-hop - always a singing over beats. I don't think people have really heard me sing out. So if I do record again, perhaps it will have an expanded context. Where people can hear a bit more.
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The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.
