Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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The feather in your cap is to get a man you love who'll marry you.
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I think there's a difference when you make fun of yourself and your own behavior, and when you dishonor or disrespect Christ. If you're making a mockery of Christ is one thing. But if you're just joking about human foibles and weaknesses, I think that's perfectly acceptable.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.
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I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'
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You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.
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I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross.
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My private life stays private.
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A library implies an act of faith.
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The reality is that we have missed a lot of opportunities in Iraq because of a failed policy.
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Reality is the richest thing there is, the most important thing there is. Our imagination allows us to live an artificial life that is wonderful, extremely rich, but I don't believe any artist would dare to say that artifice is better than real life.
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I find titles the hardest thing. I was worried that 'Waste Land' was too much of a downer. For me, 'The Crash Reel' confronts what the film is about: it's not just about the reality of a crash, it's about the extremity we all face, and what happens when life crashes on you.
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Long-term commitment to new learning and new philosophy is required of any management that seeks transformation. The timid and the fainthearted, and the people that expect quick results, are doomed to disappointment.
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Your job as an actor is to stay employed.
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Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.
