Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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The Qur'an, throughout all of its verses, aims mainly to establish and confirm four basic, universal truths: the existence and Oneness of the Maker of the universe; Prophethood; bodily Resurrection; and worship and justice.
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We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
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It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
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I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!
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Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.
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If I score a goal on the road, I come home, and that's probably the first thing I'm doing, pullin' up the laptop and watching. Can't watch it in front of the teammates, or else I'll get made fun of.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
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Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.
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I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.
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At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.
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If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.
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I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.
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Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.
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Take your average couscous salad, and it's almost always a sloppy mush, no matter how much attention has gone into getting flavours in there.
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Every note is a lifetime for itself.
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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
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I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.
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It's good just to laugh sometimes, and if it comes out of some truth, it's even stronger.
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All laugh and play together, not one cold, stiff soul appears. From the day they enter, reserve of any ungracious kind leaves them.
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I just want to make people laugh, and I want to do that the best way possible.
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I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.
