Abraham Lincoln Quotes
If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.
Quotes to Explore
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
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Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
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I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.
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The demand that school finances be transferred away from local school districts to the state and/or federal government has been a long-time favorite of the educationist lobbies.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
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Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.
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What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.
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I entered the industry at very young age, and I was like any normal girl at the age of 17 or 18. At that age, most girls are a little plump.
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I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.
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I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.
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We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.
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I usually try to eat in my restaurants before I fly, as I'd rather sleep on the plane and just order a salad with cheese, maybe some ice cream.
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I think sometimes Europe may take for granted the extraordinary progress that's been made over the last 40, 50 years. I recognize that sometimes there is great frustration that arises out of the euro zone or out of the EU.
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You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real danger.
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Theater represents to me this phenomenon in juxtaposition to real life, where there are all these imposed guidelines.
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It's a real player move to take a girl wine-tasting on a date - she'll like that.
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Hello from above our magnificent planet Earth.
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If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.
