Abraham Lincoln Quotes
The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.
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We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.
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You were born as the one you are.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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When I went to school, there were no Black philosophers, at least none that I was aware of, who were recognized by Western universities.
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I abide by a rule concerning reviews: I will never ask, neither in writing nor in person, that a word be put in about my book.... One feels cleaner this way. When someone asks that his book be reviewed he risks running up against a vulgarity offensive to authorial sensibilities.
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The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter.
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It's going to be really weird when I'm 80 years old, in a walker, and people are still calling me America's sweetheart. We need a new one.
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For me, I feel like I'm slowly accomplishing what I've always wanted to do. I've always dreamed really big, and my mom planted that in all three of my siblings: 'You guys can do anything.'
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The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.
