Abraham Lincoln Quotes

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• Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Together
  • Control
  • Digital

• I saw a picture of Elvis in blue lame, and thought that if I could recreate that suit and walk down the King's Road in it, someone might pick me up and take me off on a crazy adventure.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Up
  • Crazy
  • Road

• It is crucial that we develop real awareness of ourselves as citizens of Earth, linked by mutual and indissoluble bonds. When we clearly recognize this reality and ground ourselves in it, we are compelled to take a strict accounting of our way of life.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • Real
  • Reality

• We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • People
  • Development
  • Islamic

• I'm someone who wears their heart on their sleeve.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Heart
  • Someone
  • Sleeve

• I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Music
  • Long
  • Care

• I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • Great
  • Family
  • America

• If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.

  

  La Monte Young
  • Heaven
  • Communication
  • Away

• The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Accept

• I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!

  

  Van Morrison
  • Never
  • Moon
  • Silver

• I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Moving
  • Hands
  • Golf

• The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Age
  • Peace
  • Alone

• By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Man
  • Lie
  • Dignity

• I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Time
  • Own
  • Cinema

• While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • Business
  • Energy
  • Focus

• If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Money
  • Credit
  • Bitcoin

• I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Talk
  • Meetings
  • Fast

• I wasn't a comic book aficionado at all when I was a kid, but my cousin Weed was. Every time we went to visit him on the farm, he had two really fun things: comedy albums and comic books.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Time
  • Book
  • Fun

• One of the best decisions we made on the 'Arrow' pilot was to have the Deathstroke mask. Within 30 seconds, you knew you were watching a DC comics show.

  

  Andrew Kreisberg

• I think the most important thing for an actor is reading the script and trying to figure out if you can play that character well. The last thing on my mind is if the director made good movies previously. It's not my job to know if that director's last movie was any good - it's my job to know if I can play the role.

  

  Jesse Eisenberg
  • Good
  • Important
  • Mind

• Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Library

• Well, after all, this is the age of the disposable tissue. Blow your nose on a person, wad them, flush them away, reach for another, blow, wad, flush. Everyone using everyone else's coattails. How are you supposed to root for the home team when you don't even have a program or know the names? For that matter, what color jersey's are they reading as they trot out to the feild?

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Home
  • Age
  • Team

• Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Reading
  • Books
  • Sit Down