Abraham Lincoln Quotes

If 600,000 people have to die in order for the nation to live, then 600,000 people will die.

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• I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Goal
  • Process
  • Obsessed

• I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Women
  • Star
  • Woman

• Any manager can do well in an expanding market.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Market
  • Well
  • Manager

• I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Money
  • Business
  • Feeling

• This was just one of many times God has spared me.

  

  Jack Kelley
  • God
  • Me
  • Times

• It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • May
  • Help
  • Nature

• Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Dad

• I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Think
  • Angry
  • Start

• New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Walking
  • New York
  • Mirrors

• In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Gay
  • Sad
  • Down

• If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Business
  • Man
  • Chance

• I'm easily entertained.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Easily
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• I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Time
  • Choice
  • Grace

• I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Girl
  • Sexy
  • Train

• You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Mind
  • Identity
  • Find

• I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Why
  • Success
  • Day

• Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Heart
  • Doubt
  • Paris

• I am from Karnal, India.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • India
  • Karnal

• I don't think people were betting on me, but they were giving me a chance. I think I rode a wave there, by being different in appearance than the girls who preceded me.

  

  Elisabeth Rohm
  • People
  • Different
  • Giving

• I'm hardly a known name, but I don't want to go, like, 'Oh, people call me a storyteller comedian, let me just go up and just talk about my day.' I don't want that to happen.

  

  Kyle Kinane
  • People
  • Up

• I think there were six or eight weeks between 'Total Recall' and 'Seven Psychopaths.' I was at home in Los Angeles for 'Seven Psychopaths,' so it was the first time I had worked from my house here so it was great to be around the kids.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Time
  • Great
  • Home

• I'd like to be able to design as easily as if I was using Photoshop. I'd like to be able to create a multicolumn layout and control source order without having to do advanced mathematics or hire Eric Meyer or Dan Cederholm to figure out the CSS, because I can't.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
  • Control
  • Design

• It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.

  

  Lukas Foss

• If 600,000 people have to die in order for the nation to live, then 600,000 people will die.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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