Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone.
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Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.
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In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.
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Submission to what people call their "lot" is simply ignoble. If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another; strike out for yourself; don't listen to the shrieks of your relations, to their gibes or their entreaties; don't let your own microscopic set prescribe your goings-out and comings-in; don't be afraid of public opinion in the shape of the neighbor in the next house, when all the world is before you new and shining, and everything is possible, if you will only be energetic and independent and seize the opportunity by the scruff of the neck.
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If not you, who? If not now, when?
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I have no wealthy or popular relations to recommend me.
