George Washington Quotes
It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.
Quotes to Explore
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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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One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.
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I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last.
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Notice how we are perpetually surprised at Time. ('How time flies! Fancy John being grown-up and married! I can hardly believe it!') In heavens name, why? Unless, indeed, there is something in us which is not temporal.
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I think about Lenaya and Hugh. Will they know how much I've changed this year? Will they have changed too? I'll wait until tomorrow to find out. And then it's possible I won't find out after all. Because some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.
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It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.
