Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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I don't do anything political on Sundays.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
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The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of delusion.
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Before I came to New York, I only had a few pictures of the city in my mind. And you know 'That Girl?' Marlo Thomas jumping with her hat? I always loved that, and I wondered what that double street she crosses is. And it's Park Avenue! And that's what I can see out my window.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
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I have very eclectic tastes.
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Indeed, many of life's most fun and pleasurable choices come with potential dangers. It's important for my son to grow up recognizing that what might appear exciting or inviting at first glance could also have eventual negative consequences.
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The relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture.
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In cognitively demanding fields, there are no naturals. Nobody walks into an operating room straight out of a surgical rotation and does world-class neurosurgery.
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We always learn more from the losing than the winning.
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How can German music not be represented by an article?
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
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The great American food writer M. F. K. Fisher once wrote an essay called 'The Anatomy of a Recipe.' To have a good anatomy, in her view, a recipe should have a sense of logical progression. She despaired of recipes with 'anatomical faults,' where the reader is told to make a cake batter and only then to grease the loaf pans.
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With the internet, things are so much more immediate. People taste-test things to see if they want to buy the CD.
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Well, we knew that we wanted to tell a story that made bold choices, and one of those bold choices was meeting a storm trooper and seeing who this person was. That's something that had never been done.
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Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid.
