Abraham Lincoln Quotes
A right result, at this time, will be worth more to the world, than ten times the men, and ten times the money.
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To me, it's impolite to go out shopping with no money.
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I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.
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I think people are going to like my new shoes. I like them. I had a lot of success with the one last year, but this year's shoe is going to be a little different, but at the same time it's going to be a little spin-off on last year's shoe.
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Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
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It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.
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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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When an accident or a crime happens, there's a period of time before the yellow tape goes up, before the official response becomes formalized. That allows the nightcrawlers to get very close.
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I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws.
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The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?
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I can't really see myself as an artist. Now, to step out here and there, do it when I feel like it, that's a possibility. But for me to be a full-fledged, full-time artist in the industry, I don't think so.
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Radio stinks. The stations are making a lot of money, but they just aren't taking chances.
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People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?
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Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his mailed hand on those desolate towers and ruthlessly torn down what time has spared, yet he could not mar the beauty of the shore, nor could Time himself hurl down the mountains that guard it.
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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My life is not that glamorous. I actually live a pretty simple life, really. I just work. I don't have time to do all these glamorous things. I just do my thing, just work.
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Dissolution and custody matters are the great equalizers. Having done this for a while, you do realize that everybody has the same issues. It doesn't matter how much money you have or how much power you have, you are always afraid you're never going to see your child.
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I think that we are approaching a kind of event field – fifteen years, twenty years up the road. There is a big event in the future and because time is not what we think it is, that event radiates in all directions. We are entering its field and have been for hundreds of years. We are starting to approach the core of it.
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They really can't imagine what my voice is like. Every time I sing a song, they are very surprised.
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I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months.
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And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?
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A right result, at this time, will be worth more to the world, than ten times the men, and ten times the money.
