Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always.
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.
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Forty-five years ago, when I was 18, I came to San Francisco by boat and took two weeks to get here. I had a great impression. I think San Francisco is the welcoming gate for people from Asia.
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Anyone can look beautiful.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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You were born as the one you are.
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I hate to travel with stuff.
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I decided one day to put on my tutu and jump on the coffee table and sing Aretha Franklin songs for the painters that were painting the house.
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Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques.
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I hate death; it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless.
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When I heard 'Jesus, Take the Wheel,' I was like, OK. Some people look at it as a song written for an American Idol, Carrie Underwood, who is wonderful. But when you're a songwriter listening to a song, you hear something else. I heard that song, and wow.
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There is a part of your brain that has to stop when you're acting. You have to be in the moment and dare to fly. Words can't be on your mind.
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I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always.
