George Washington Quotes

As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit.

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• Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Nothing
  • Something
  • Say

• Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.

  

  Harold Washington
  • American
  • History
  • Democracy

• I think I am at my best when my hair is short. It's easier to take care of and more of who I am. Women are conditioned to think we need long hair.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Long
  • Women
  • Best

• I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Day

• I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Television

• The very moment you understand that being a Muslim and being American or European are not mutually exclusive, you enrich your society. Promote the universal principles of justice and freedom, and leave the societies elsewhere to find their model of democracy based on their collective psychology and cultural heritage.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • American
  • Society
  • Freedom

• I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Like
  • Dark
  • Break

• I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Movie
  • Building
  • Looking

• Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

  

  Ouida
  • Friends
  • See
  • Goodbye

• I don't have many friends.

  

  Larry David
  • Friends
  • Many

• The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Interesting
  • Movies
  • Walk

• I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Understand
  • Tea
  • Anger

• I definitely I prefer to sing in the car. I don't sing in the shower, maybe its because that's the one time I don't need to talk to anyone so I should just shut up, otherwise I'm just, you know, jibber jabber.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Up
  • Time
  • Know

• In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player!

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Character
  • Player
  • Basketball

• My only personal time is a couple of hours in the gym in the morning.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Time
  • Morning
  • Couple

• In a world where everyone is behaving honestly, any dishonesty constitutes a big infraction. But, in a world where many people are behaving dishonestly, and the news is filled with stories of their infractions, even big infractions can feel small to the perpetrator.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • People
  • World
  • Small

• It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.

  

  J. Reuben Clark
  • Genius
  • Independence

• My mother always said don't marry for money, divorce for money.

  

  Wendy Liebman
  • Money
  • Mother
  • Said

• I did not set out to be a poster child for anything. I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.

  

  Raha Moharrak
  • Child
  • Mountain
  • Climb

• I have lived in the United States for half of my life, my entire adult life.

  

  Sheena Easton
  • Life

• For me, a snack is supposed to be unhealthy! I like having chips or popcorn when I'm on set.

  

  Sara Sampaio
  • Chips
  • Popcorn
  • Unhealthy

• It's not the job of government to help the poor. The church is the mechanism that God put on earth to help the poor.

  

  Rich Mullins
  • Earth
  • Government
  • Church

• It's important to surround yourself with good people, interesting people, young people, young ideas. Go places, learn new stuff. Look at the world with wonder - don't be tired about it.

  

  Angela Bassett
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit.

  

  George Washington
  • Important
  • Security
  • Credit