John George Nicolay Quotes
Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them.
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You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.
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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
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Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
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God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
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You think you choose the subjects of your books. But sometimes, in ways you don't know, the books choose you.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
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You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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I was 12 when it really hit me. I did children's theatre camp during the summers and played a fairy in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The next summer, I played Clytemnestra in 'Agamemnon' and I was like, 'OK, this is amazing.'
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I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.
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No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honour, it has no word to keep. … Hitler is himself the nation. That incidentally is why Hitler always has to talk so loud, even in private conversation - because he is speaking with 78 million voices.
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I've never had a business plan. Every project we've ever done was the intersection of somebody with a real need, a real passion to do something, and hustling.
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When I'm working on comics, I have to give myself a million deadlines, or I'd never get anything done. Comics are just so hard to make - I find it very difficult to motivate myself.
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All this terminology of rankings - forcing rankings along some distribution curve or whatever - we're done with that.
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Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them.
