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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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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You want somebody who's capable of being diverse in the characters they play, and you want a big name that's going to bring attention to the filmmakers and to the project.
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The attitude of foreign to English musicians is unsympathetic, self-opinionated and pedantic. They believe that their tradition is the only one (this is specially true of the Viennese) and that anything that is not in accordance with that tradition is 'wrong' and arises from insular ignorance.
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The real war poets are always war poets, peace or any time.
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I remember I'd come home from fifth, sixth grade, and I'd watch 'Saved by the Bell' and be like, 'I hope my high school experience is like that.' And it totally wasn't. It sucked.
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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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.
