George Washington Quotes
It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.
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My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.
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My daughter said, 'I don't think granddad really suits you.'
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Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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It's always nice to have more than just two hands if you're making cakes.
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My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
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I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.
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There's no question there needs to be higher-paying opportunities for women. It's not that it hasn't existed in certain categories: Certain women have made a lot of money... Jennifer Lawrence... is being paid a lot of money, rightfully so, for the franchises she's in.
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I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identity.
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How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years?
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Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. … This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.
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Travel is stressful.
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Liz Benedict, a teacher of mine at Iowa, is the person who introduced me to James Salter's work.
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The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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I learned long ago you run unopposed, or you run scared.
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Some people believe the U.S. can't compete in the design and manufacture of sophisticated products. I think we absolutely can if we pull together. We have shown that we can do that in commercial airplanes, and we can absolutely prove that we can do that in automobiles.
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A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.
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The poor taxpayer may wipe his shoes on a $3 doormat when he goes home, but not the Navy. It is, damn the cost, full feet ahead on a doormat you would be ashamed to get muddy.
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I still don't know how to jump-start a car, even though it's been told to me a million times. But I do love thinking about how creativity works.
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I don't ever go into anything thinking I'm going to lose. I go into it thinking and believing I'm going to come out on top. I'm going to succeed.
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I try when I'm writing to fill my head and my ears with all sorts of stuff and then let it settle and filter through. At a certain point it seems like fruitless activity because you're taking a lot of time and not seeming to get anything. And then, slowly, you realize you've actually digested elements and that your thinking is being freed up and the way you build up compositions is changed as a result of what you've been listening to.
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It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.
