George Washington Quotes
To acknowledge the receipt of letters is always proper, to remove doubts of their miscarriage.
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We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
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My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done.
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I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter.
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If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.
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'Yogi Bear' changed my life in ways that I can't explain because it's not a full feature on me. 'Yogi Bear' – there's everything before 'Yogi Bear,' and there's everything after 'Yogi Bear.' Like a major car accident, or the birth of Christ.
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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
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I suppose I'd always been attracted to commitment-phobes because some part of me felt unlovable. It was a lot easier to fall for a guy who I knew, on some level, wouldn't fall in love with me. There was nothing to risk. The real risk would be to finally be vulnerable to love.
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I have this theory about science fiction movies in that, when the space race sort of died, a lot of people sort of lost hope.
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How can a guy talk about $20 or $30 million if he's never even made $8 or $9 million?
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Only that position can impart dignity in which we do not appear as servile tools but rather create independently within our circle.
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Given the shrinking populations inside Europe and the waves of immigrants rolling in from Africa and the Middle and Near East, an Islamic Europe seems to be in the cards before the end of the century.
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The notion of innate knowledge (including moral knowledge) is rejected, but that of moral sensitivities is accepted.
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The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
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The bedraggled warhorse of American blowhardism.
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The Olympics are an opportunity to redefine the country, but the message is always wrong.
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I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.
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The whole selfie generation - it's just not my vibe.
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I was writing all my childhood. And I wrote two novels when I was 17, which were terrible. And I'm not sorry I threw them out. So, I wrote. I had to write. You know, the thing was, I had no education.
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We doubt not the destiny of our country - that she is to accomplish great things for human nature, and be the mother of a nobler race than the world has yet known. But she has been so false to the scheme made out at her nativity, that it is now hard to say which way that destiny points.
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When in doubt, make a red painting.
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To acknowledge the receipt of letters is always proper, to remove doubts of their miscarriage.
