Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.
Quotes to Explore
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Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
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No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.
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I could have lived off all the male careers in my family. Everybody was always getting ovations, but I was in the wings.
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I just work hard and do things as they come along. But it has been a challenge to learn that I have to say 'no' to things and to know how and what to prioritize.
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I hope that I can continue to champion Dr. Paul's efforts to audit the Fed, protect state's rights, and getting our nation back on track.
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I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
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Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
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My wife's income allowed me to do what I really loved. I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier.
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We live in a society that refuses to set a standard for what we will allow American entertainment to expose to our children. I think we need to set a standard that is entertainment industry wide, not just limited to hip-hop.
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I wrote my earliest piece for The Sunday Times about being a young wife.
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I feel like every album we make, that's our debut album.
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To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.
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I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.
