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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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'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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A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.
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In a very real sense, I represent pop culture in an iconic way. It's been very good to me, so anything I can do to help the fans to tumble along - it's good.
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When you get older, the first thing that starts to go is reflexes, and reflexes are important for any person, especially an athlete - to react to something in a time when something is going on, and you can't be a second or two behind.
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It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor.
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Theoretically there is no absolute proof that one's awakening in the morning (the finding oneself again in the saddle of one's personality) is not really a quite unprecedented event, a perfectly original birth.
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But all my people, the Palestinians and the Arabs, wish me long life and freedom.
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I was mainly raised by a working mum who didn't have much time or inclination for making food. So I had three or four basic meals: fish fingers and a tomato; a packet scotch egg and a tomato; pasta with a tin of tomatoes; and extra mild plastic-y cheddar chopped into cubes with bits of cucumber.
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My father was a little frightening - a huge man, six foot four - and he looked like God. He was always a visitor, as far as I was concerned, because my parents separated when I was nine. We only became friends when he was old and began to shrink. During the war, he was a BBC war correspondent and did some extraordinary broadcasts.
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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.
