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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Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.
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You need the commitment of people that aren't worried about that next election, who are going to do the right thing and worry about the next generation. It's called political courage. And I can tell you, with me, you don't have to ask whether I have political courage.
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I always have difficulty with the Greek tragic plays. I think the difficulty one has - which is a serious problem - is the question of belief. Do you believe in the myth that the play expresses? Do you believe in it as myth or as reality? With any play, you have to believe in it as reality. You can't act a myth.
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I had received some minor indie label interest when I was 14 after I was in a schools music competition thing in NZ called Rockquest, but I knew it wasn't the right time and that I wasn't good enough and needed to concentrate on school.
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I see kids who are complete cynics. They're not dreaming. They're out there with high-powered weapons, smoking crack behind the 7-Eleven. They've seen it all. These kids are going to take us into 2000 and beyond. That's scary, man. I wouldn't say I'm pessimistic or optimistic. I'm more realistic, I guess. But not cynical. I look. I watch.
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Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.
