George Washington Quotes
I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
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The reforms proposed by the Patent Reform Act of 2007 are precisely the type of congressional action needed. The Act will remove obstacles to growth and restore balance to the patent system.
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I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things.
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I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
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Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
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The latter 1940s and early '50s were a time of tense, explosive conflict, in the world at large and in the politics of our nation.
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There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I'd have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot. Sometimes, it was all too much to believe. But the wildest things happened.
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Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
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I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.
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You can think of all the things a Congress or a legislature does, and then you kind of overshadow that with the fact that a few people are going to make those decisions.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?
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I'm a firm believer that if you are not on the team, you ought not have input on who the quarterback is going to be.
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To make war, you had to be filled with love, with a vehement passion, exalted, intoxicated, otherwise the whole thing was inhuman and absurd.
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When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.
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I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
