Joseph C.Lincoln Quotes
My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.
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In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
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Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
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People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.
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Looking back on my 50-year eclectic journey in research, I am grateful that it has gone as well as it has, although still not clever enough to open the black box of enzyme structure.
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I am a very musical person. I love music, and I don't just love Cape Breton fiddling, although it's my favorite.
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Whose secret Presence, through Creation's veins Running Quicksilver-like eludes your pains; Taking all shapes from Mah to Mahi; and They change and perish all - but He remains;
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Dignitary wounds cannot always be healed with the stroke of a pen.
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I certainly have been writing stories that are hard science fiction, that are very reminiscent of 'Golden Age tales' from the '40s and '50s. I've also written stories that are very high fantasy that are the direct opposite of that style.
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I've never been on the cover of 'Tiger Beat' magazine, let's put it that way. But that's not why you go see Primus. You don't go see Primus to see what kind of new clothing I'm wearing or what my new hairdo is.
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I'm helping people think the clarinet is cool.
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But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.
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There were times when I was terrified to go to school because it felt like a jail sentence.
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Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals 'love' them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.
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I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people.
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Margaret the Churchwoman, her father the Dissenter, Higgins the Infidel, knelt down together. It did them no harm.
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I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!
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Twitter may have a cute-sounding name, but it exists, it generates a ton of content, it implicates all types of people, and it has nuances that are important to get right. Hopefully, its careless rendering by sloppy journalists won't lead to the dumbification of America.
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My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship.
