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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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 would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.
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Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking.
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Jazz took too much discipline. You have to come in at the right place, which is different than me singing the blues, where I can sing, 'Oh, baby,' if there's a pause in the melody. With jazz, you better leave that space open, or put in something real cool.
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Yes I try to do everything I can not to fail hideously.
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You're never going to look perfect to yourself even if you might look perfect to somebody else.
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Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
