Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.
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I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
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I was an expert horseman.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.
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I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
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Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
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Y'all have no idea how many times I say, 'Yes, ma'am.'
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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Part of the job for me and others from El Paso who live along the border is to dispel the myths about how supposedly dangerous the border is.
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That's the weird thing about not being married - you can't get regular kissing; you can't be guaranteed of it, and that's a great shame.
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Time is what death needs to grow people in.
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It is interesting: in France, the horror films are not so popular. People go to see them, but not for the same reason. It is more artistic and process.
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The hard way builds solidly a foundation of confidence that cannot be swept away.
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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.
