Mary Todd Lincoln Quotes
My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.
Quotes to Explore
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
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I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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I look formidable.
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No one has ever raised capital because their pitch deck was pretty. A lot of people have raised capital because they were over-prepared, knew where their business was going, and were able to articulate that through a pitch alongside a pitch deck.
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The surface is all you get of me.
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I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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My whole thing is loyalty. Loyalty over royalty; word is bond.
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Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of its ban on images. It is only in religious rituals that the use of pictorial representation is totally prohibited.
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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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Maybe there are logical reasons for a gay person not to have a great relationship with their parents - not because there's a parent who made him gay, but just because it may be difficult to understand everything.
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There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.
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I didn't tell my kids, 'You have to play viola, and you have to play piano.' They chose these things on their own, and I don't think we have to give kids every choice, but we do have to give them some choice because that autonomy is crucial for fostering passion.
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I was beginning to think I had let 'my alligator mouth overload my jaybird ass.
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...the way we talk...you know that our people like to talk around a subject even when there's no danger. They enjoy it, and if they know you well enough they're apt to leave their true subject unstated so you'll have to supply the missing meaning.
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I don't agree with that decision because I don't think by Saturday we will have a new (Palestinian) government.
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My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.
