George Washington Quotes
The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail.
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The problem that I think is reasonable to assert about Fox and its coverage is that they make up stories out of whole cloth and then make a big deal out of them.
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And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
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I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.
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I've never felt more comfortable in my skin, I've never enjoyed life as much and I feel so lucky.
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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.
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
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I'm originally from Fort Lauderdale: that's my home town in Florida. So when I'm on location, I just get the packets from schools in Florida. And when I go to Florida, I go to Christ Church School.
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I was 12 when it really hit me. I did children's theatre camp during the summers and played a fairy in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The next summer, I played Clytemnestra in 'Agamemnon' and I was like, 'OK, this is amazing.'
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Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball, and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.
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But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.
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I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.
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The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.
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So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.
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The general market wants what I do.
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Many people have this image of me. For a long time, I cared about that.
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Paris is mostly retired people - I love it, and it's a beautiful city, but it's quite slow.
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I never wanted fame.
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The youth is better than the old age of friendship.
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If you lose your reason, you lose it into the hands of God....It's the only place where anything is safe. And when you're dead it's only what's there you'll have. Nothing else.
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I thinke it not amisse to forewarne you that you thrust as few wordes of many sillables into your verse as may be: and hereunto I might alledge many reasons: first the most auncient English wordes are of one sillable, so that the more monasyllables that you use, the truer Englishman you shall seeme, and the lesse you shall smell of the Inkehorne.
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For more than a quarter of a century on active duty, my house has been my tent, and my home the battlefield.
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The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail.
