Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.
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Borderline embarrassing fact: I used to have a pseudo line when I was seven called Zizzy Fashion. I love clothing, and I would eventually like to design as well as act.
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I love being outside, I do a lot of hunting.
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Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion.
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Armies are not only for offensives.
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Change is such hard work.
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You look at 'Arrested Development' or 'Community,' we're constantly either deconstructing genre or tone. We like to say it's like being a mad scientist: you get to play in a laboratory and experiment with directions to take narrative in.
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When I was at school, I was in choirs more than anything else, from a very young age, about 9 years old. And then I started taking drum lessons.
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I just keep my head down and work hard on what I do.
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The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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I don't feel any pressure at all to go along with anybody. I feel pressure to do the right thing for U.S. markets and U.S. investors.
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For my first job interview out of college, I wore a cream-colored cotton suit with cap sleeves and an inverted box pleat skirt that was appropriate for the late-August heat - and wildly discordant with the Red Hook offices of the graffiti magazine I had called twice to find.
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Simply stated, girls want role models and mentors.
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From the very beginning, I think it's been quite clear that there's no way I could possibly say that trans women are not women. It's the sort of thing to me that's obvious, so I start from that obvious premise.
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I don't think anything's underground anymore. And I think that's a good thing. Everything is up for grabs.
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I don't think anyone is better than Amazon, and all the new generation of enterprise companies are basically copying them.
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I think the earnestness of what we're saying and what other bands like us are totally saying - or other queer bands - is 'We exist.'
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I think we still live in this era of hyper-masculinity.
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I am not a 'culture critic' because I am not in any way interested in classifying cultural forms. I am a metaphysician, interested in the life of the forms and their surprising modalities. That is why I have no interest in the academic world.
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The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose.
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As long as there are armies, there will be a war. I don’t care about symbols.
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Weakness in the capital markets, compounded by an erosion of corporate and investor confidence, has depressed activity in a number of our most important businesses, ... While we have seen some encouraging economic data of late, the current environment remains very challenging.
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The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it.
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Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.
