Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.
Quotes to Explore
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Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.
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There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.
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If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.
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There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.
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The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending.
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If we pulled out of Iraq tomorrow, Islamic jihadism is on the rise. And they continue, as we see in Lebanon, to seek to destroy the State of Israel and seek to drive America back and bring us to our knees. We must stand tall and straight.
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I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.
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I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
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Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
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The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited.
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Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
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The congressmen and senators used to go have a drink in D.C. They would disagree all day long, but they would find that time to sit down and learn about each other personally. I think that's totally wiped out; I don't think it really exists anymore.
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The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.
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Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
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I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part.
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When I first ran, being a woman in politics was seen as both a negative and also a positive. You could attract more women voters, but on the other hand, a lot of men wouldn't vote for you.
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It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.
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Bootworks' Black Box Theatre has a maximum seating capacity of two - as long as one of you is happy to sit on the other's lap.
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I think TV is evolving, but on the other hand, there is a presence of regressive shows happening, but I choose to ignore that because I am part of a very different and challenging soap.
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The time after college and before music was really rough. I couldn't afford food. I was eating bread and butter for five months. Living in New Orleans, I couldn't afford to take care of myself. I had no health insurance.
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Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.
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People will feel safer around you and speak truthfully to you when they feel you are listening intently to them.
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Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.
