Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.
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I like the challenge of growing small companies into big global companies.
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The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination.
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Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.
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I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow.
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Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.
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My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.
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Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
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The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.
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One trap you can fall into when playing someone iconic is to end up doing everything in an iconic way, no matter how pedestrian or mundane that thing is.
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I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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We all know in our hearts that forgiveness is the right thing; it's just a matter of being inspired to reach that place.
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When I was growing up as a little girl and as a teenager, I loved designing and making dogs' clothes and wanting to be a fashion designer. I took art and ceramics. I loved dance.
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Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.
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Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.
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Growing up, I was so shy, but it was weird because I was the complete opposite on stage. I was just free to be myself.
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My dad was so much fun growing up.
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While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an ambassador, an actor, an author.
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I had to learn to sew when I was growing up, because nothing else fitted me.
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Music was so important to the culture when I was growing up in the Sixties and Seventies. We just expected that Bob Dylan was going to make a great record, and it was normal. It was like, 'Okay, here's another great record by Bob Dylan; here's another great record by Led Zeppelin.'
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I just don't want to be known as the actress who can sing. I want to be known as the singer who can act, too. It's great cross-promotion.
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I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.
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When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides?
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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
