Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed.

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• We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Responsibility
  • Humanity
  • Suffering

• I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • You
  • Interesting
  • Know

• After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.

  

  Gary Webb
  • Life
  • Government
  • Responsibility

• I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • People
  • Real
  • American

• I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Hope
  • Career
  • Win

• That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Passion
  • Danger
  • Attraction

• As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism or as conversation or action. It's clickbait.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Culture
  • Action
  • Celebrity

• The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Men
  • Problem
  • Suffering

• Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Work
  • Enjoy
  • Doing

• There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Sports

• When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Train
  • Vacation
  • Busy

• Everything goes in waves. Evolution goes in waves. The ocean goes in waves. Energy goes in waves. Sound travels in waves.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Energy
  • Ocean
  • Evolution

• No adultery is bloodless.

  

  Natalia Ginzburg
  • Adultery
  • Bloodless

• I would love to direct - or try my hand at it, anyway.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Hand
  • Try
  • Direct

• If you do what you were born to do, I think you will never grow old.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Think
  • Old
  • Grow

• If you have drive and energy, everything is possible.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • You
  • Energy
  • Drive

• The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Action
  • Essence
  • Concentration

• Through transparency we expose corruption, but then there is no action taken against the corrupt.

  

  Aruna Roy
  • Action
  • Corruption
  • Transparency

• In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and history, and I have always enjoyed that.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • School
  • History
  • High

• I think I am very hands-on mother. I am very strict, and my daughter keeps telling me, 'You are too hard on me,' and I keep telling her, 'I have to be hard because if I am not hard, you will not learn the lessons that I want you to learn.' I think it is really important to be that way.

  

  Kajol
  • Important
  • Mother
  • Way

• If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Up
  • Been
  • Line

• Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Action
  • Human
  • Extent