Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
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It's always the girl comedy and the guy comedy. It bums me out. You'd think there'd be a progression, from James L. Brooks and Nora Ephron into more subtle humor and behavior and psychology. All these interesting things people can learn about themselves by watching talented writers comment intelligently on someone else's emotional life.
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When you do comedy, you get impervious to good and bad reviews.
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I had the most fun on '3rd Rock'. It was a great show to work on.
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Everyone has the notion that hip-hop is messy and loose, but there's also another level to it.
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I always see people tweeting about these crazy amazing things their boyfriend or girlfriend did for them. You shouldn't have to constantly be trying to prove your love when you're in a relationship.
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I love to play with textures and colors. I mix them together like I would in a painting.
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Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.
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To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself.
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The nation is marching along a permanently high plateau of prosperity.
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Look how Bill Cohen and George Mitchell worked together. It's the stuff of legends. And now it's the stuff of almost ancient history, regrettably, but the way those two really worked together.
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The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.
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We're not exposed to a lot of guys.
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Being a shy child, I always longed for a mask. Even in my adult life, I have glasses, they are my mask.
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To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.
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Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.
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There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing. (They hang there, the stars, like notes on a page of music, free-form verse, silent mysteries swirling in the blue like jazz.) And as I lay there, it occurred to me that God is up there somewhere.
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Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.
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The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here YOU are.
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Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
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I'd like to come back to the West eventually. In the end abroad I am always a stranger, active politics in particular is not accessible to me and although people are generous, I can never be on the inside of a culture that relies a great deal on the private space and the family.
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The future belongs to those who innovate.
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I have no wealthy or popular relations to recommend me.
