George Washington Quotes
I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.
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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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Whether it's as the hero of an adventure story, as teacher and friend, as icon on watch, shirt or hat - everyone knows Mickey Mouse.
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But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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I've seen 'Silence of the Lambs,' like, fifty or sixty times. That's my favorite movie of all time.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
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In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.
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I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
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Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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I think it's safe to say that 'manliness' was a common theme in my upbringing. It was an assumed status, but - and here's the important bit - it was the Rudyard Kipling kind. The emphasis was on gentlemanly conduct, sportsmanship, fairness and stoicism.
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A lot of what Groupon is generating is demand for something people didn't know they wanted.
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I wrote the first draft of the New People quickly but it had been percolating a lot longer. It's a hard question to answer because I'd been working on another novel for years and when I gave up on that, this one came very easily. But I think the work had been going on a lot longer than the actual writing.
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I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.
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I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love.
