Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.
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I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
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We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And if I go back as far as my great grandmothers, there was always that love and the ability to be nurturing. Then I grew up in a household where my father was the one who was more affectionate with me.
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The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
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During recording, the most important thing of all is to "sing sincerely" from the heart. When you guys listen to my songs and able to feel my sincere singing, I will be very happy.
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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
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Critics of consumer capitalism like to think that consumers are manipulated and controlled by those who seek to sell them things, but for the most part it's the other way around: companies must make what consumers want and deliver it at the lowest possible price.
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Making small changes every week over a few months will result in huge changes.
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I'm inclined to vote for Roberts unless something else comes up. It's a close call.
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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
