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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Heroes have gone out; quacks have come in; the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is held with a firmer grasp; the empire has a wider boundary. We are all the slaves of quackery in one shape or another. Indeed, one portion of our being is always playing the successful quack to the other.
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I am a person who is inclined to define relations between individuals based on principles.
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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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Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself.
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I have no wealthy or popular relations to recommend me.
