George Washington Quotes

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

George Washington

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• I'm a huge fan of Taio Cruz. I'm really liking what he's doing at the moment. I'd love to do something with him.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Doing
  • Moment
  • Liking

• I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Hate
  • Enjoy
  • Research

• I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • American
  • Care

• As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Always
  • Never
  • Fight

• I used to want covers that represented the book's contents very closely and were also pretty. Many folks automatically believe that this is what makes a good cover. But I've changed my mind about this. While the cover should not lie (by implication or outright), its job is simply to say: 'Pick me up!' to someone who might like the book.

  

  Nancy Werlin
  • Up
  • Good
  • Believe

• I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Money
  • House
  • Living

• I love being in Malibu. It's so cool there, and the water is just, it's nice and, and I love the beach. And I found a sand dollar there.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Nice
  • Cool
  • Beach

• The general market wants what I do.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Market
  • Wants
  • General

• I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Think
  • Baseball
  • Themes

• Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.

  

  Alan Ball
  • America
  • Wind

• Listen to the Beatles' 'Things We Said Today.' Ringo Starr does not play a fill in the entire song. It doesn't need it. 'A Day In the Life' has gorgeous fills, but there, the song needs it. When I play on any record, I'm striving to get where Ringo is. You play what doesn't take you out of the song.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Life
  • Today
  • Song

• When you feel your best, everybody else can feel it, too.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Best
  • Feel
  • Everybody

• I was starting all over. It's a tough road up here and last year, for whatever reason, I probably deserved it (the criticism).

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Up
  • Road
  • Criticism

• You can't write all those little nuances, inflections that they'd do, ... James and Benny, playing off each other, they'd come up with something ten times better than what you thought you had.

  

  Lamont Dozier
  • Up
  • Play
  • Nuances

• We're not always in the position that we want to be at. We're constantly growing, we're constantly making mistakes, we're constantly trying to express ourselves and trying to actualize our dreams.

  

  Kanye West
  • Trying
  • Dream
  • Growing

• No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Why
  • Knowledge
  • Treasure

• When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Comedy
  • Pregnant
  • Sombrero

• God isn't separate from us, because He's the love inside our minds. Every problem, inside and out, is due to a separation from love on someone's part. Thirty-five thousand people a day die of hunger on earth, and there's no dearth of food. The question is not 'what kind of God would let children starve?' but rather, 'What kind of people let children starve?'

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • God
  • Children

• I don't know if the scripts are changing so much. I mean, I've been working for almost 25 years and made over 40 films and I worked with my first female director, on a feature, "Planetarium". And it's still the only one.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Director
  • Female
  • Scripts

• The U.N. Security Council did not to condemn the Qana massacre, due to the U.S. veto.

  

  Hassan Nasrallah
  • U.N. Security Council
  • Qana massacre
  • U.S. veto

• I think this is the start of something really big. Sometimes that first step is the hardest one, and we've just taken it.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Start
  • Step

• When one cow was found with BSE in 2003, many of our trading partners closed their borders to our beef.

  

  Mike Johanns
  • Borders
  • Partners
  • Trading

• My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

  

  George Washington
  • Persons
  • Found
  • Duty