Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
Quotes to Explore
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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If anyone has followed my career, they know that there's been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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There was always that kind of imagination in our house, which was always a little crazy.
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I've always wanted to do a period piece.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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We must assert to the Abrahamic people that we are the last extension of the Abrahamic religion... There is no such thing as an Islamic tribe.
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
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I was missing out on a lot of things that my friends were doing, but in another way, they were missing things I was doing. It was kind of a trade-off I had to make.
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Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.
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Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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The challenge for a writer looking at history is to figure out what is history and what is myth. After all, what you are looking at is an interpretation of history, and so at some level, it becomes an interpretation of an interpretation.
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Oh, my mom. She's one of my biggest fans.
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I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.
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They used to call me Cam-bones because I was so skinny.
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We put water down into the earth to push up gas, then we say, 'Ooh, we're having a water crisis.' This is foolishness, and this kind of foolishness, where we try to excuse human behavior, is dangerous.
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I take comfort in knowing that it was the shepherds to whom the angels appeared when they announced Christ's birth. Invariably throughout the course of history, God has appeared to people on the fringes. It's nice to find theological justification for your quirks.
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I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
