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 was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.
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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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A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
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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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There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.
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For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.
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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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Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China - the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.
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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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My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.
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A lot of people don't even listen to albums start to finish, but I do - for sure.
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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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We are not saints, gods, spiritual human beings that we can sit and decide whether a film will do well or not. It is not in our hands.
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I think women become more wrapped up emotionally in men when sex is involved. And I think men have a much easier time of having innocuous, meaningless sex for pleasure. It's just how we're built genetically.
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In view of my services in Africa, I have the chance of dying by poison. Two generals have brought it with them. It is fatal in three seconds. If I take the poison, none of the usual steps will be taken against my family; that is, against you. They will also leave my staff alone.
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I'm not no egotistical person. I just want what I'm supposed to get. Not a penny more, not a penny less.
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Dear God, I surrender this thought to you, for I would see the miracle that lies behind it. Amen.
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One of the greatest struggles of becoming an adult is figuring out what you want to do and what makes you happy. The courageous thing is to stick with it and see it through and see if you were correct.
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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.
