Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a woman her age is offered. That's a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn't work the other way around.


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GEORGE WASHINGTON
I die hard but am not afraid to go.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
I am for free commerce with all nations; political connection with none; and little or no diplomatic...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who wo...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon
GEORGE WASHINGTON
As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselve...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
An army of asses led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by an ass
GEORGE WASHINGTON
"The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just p...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that action, not words, are the true c...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity befo...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
When it was reported to General Washington that the army was frequently indulging in swearing, he im...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
One of his officers, Henry Lee, summed up contemporary public opinion of Washington: First in war, f...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the plac...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Following his brief inaugural address to the Congress, President George Washington and his party wal...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
When I contemplate the interposition of Providence, as it was visibly manifested, in guiding us thro...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my succe...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity tak...
WASHINGTON IRVING
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
His very faults smack of the raciness of his good qualities.
WASHINGTON IRVING
Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men, any more than fine feathers make fine birds. A plai...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a f...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposi...
MARTHA WASHINGTON
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with other...
WASHINGTON IRVING
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

GEORGE WASHINGTON
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
It is better to be alone than in bad company.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Is...
KERRY WASHINGTON
Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proporti...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we...
WASHINGTON IRVING
I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I...
KERRY WASHINGTON
I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan ado...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
I have an amazing social media manager, Allison Peters, who is one of my closest friends since child...
KERRY WASHINGTON
My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is wor...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
MARTHA WASHINGTON