Abraham Lincoln Quotes

I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

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I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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I love doing impressions of politicians because the task is always to imagine the private lives of these people whose job it is to project an image of staunch, unflinching leadership and grace, and that's just not how human beings, in their heart of hearts, work.
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I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.
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I want to know that I gave my 100 percent, and even if it doesn't work, you know that you gave everything, and you don't have to look at it and say... I could have gave more - that would break my heart.
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I have a big heart.
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I don't want to be involved with an actor because I know how they are. I've had problems in the past being with guys who haven't had any success or haven't made as much money, and it's very uncomfortable.
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I'm very competitive, and my ego couldn't handle that lack of success.
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The metaphor I've used is... somebody's going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon, and I won't be there to catch them. And that breaks my heart. But I have some time to sew some nets to cushion the fall. So, I can curl up in a ball and cry, or I can get to work on the nets.
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I don't have any formula. I just work with my heart, putting in a lot of hard work.
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Commitment and creativity cannot be captured and handcuffed. Inspiration cannot be jailed. The heart cannot be contained.
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The real secret of success is enthusiasm.
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That was my first introduction to BMWs in 1978, when my friend bought it for me as a surprise with my money. And ever since then, I've stuck to BMWs.
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Logically, harmony must come from the heart... Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.
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If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.
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Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
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Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.
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When you fly to New York, sometimes they put you on hold and you just go round and around in a holding pattern. Sometimes in a concert, I feel other spirits in a holding pattern that they want to land through my heart and through my fingers.
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Something in me, in my bruised heart, wakes up, and even though I'm terrified, I don't push the feeling away.
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I took a computer-science course to fill a prerequisite at Stanford, and I realized that every day was a new problem, and every day you got to think about how to solve something new, how to reason through something new, how to develop an algorithm to solve for something you hadn't worked on before.
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I see the game differently than some guys. I'm always reading the next move.
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I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.