Abraham Lincoln Quotes
If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.
Eddie Trunk
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
B. C. Forbes
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I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.
Vijay Mallya
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In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
Jack Nicholson
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When I was a boy, cricket was very, very English. Anyone who spoke English and anyone from a big town could play. And that was it.
Kapil Dev
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I want to win championships.
Victor Cruz
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That President Mohammad Khatami's policies have been blocked is the bitterest incident in the contemporary Iranian history. This means that the wishes of millions of people who voted for Khatami and called for freedom and justice have been ignored... Why should cultural activities and journalism be so risky in Iran?
Abdolkarim Soroush
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You know, I want to help my country. Definitely I can help them, simply by winning races. Sure, they can follow my path to a good career. But for me it is not enough. I want to be more than that. In everything I want to be a role model.
Haile Gebrselassie
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We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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Young people deserve stable employment opportunities and not mountains of debt. When young people can access the middle class, America is strengthened.
Patrick Murphy
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The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from, and I've often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness.
Taiye Selasi
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All the social things the consumer has gotten used to are being applied to business.
Ram Shriram
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Advertising is legalized lying.
H. G. Wells
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Everyone at the Hayholt had seemed obsessed with the empty ritual of power, something Miriamele had lived with for so long that it held no interest for her. It was like watching a confusing game played by bad-tempered children.
Tad Williams
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One of those creatures wrote you once, ‘do not call up any that you can not put down’.
H. P. Lovecraft
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God far exceeds all words that we can here express In silence He is heard, in silence worshiped best
Angelus Silesius
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Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.
Ally Sheedy
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Whenever I enter a position, I have a predetermined stop. That is the only way I can sleep. I know where I'm getting out before I get in. The position size on a trade is determined by the stop, and the stop is determined on a technical basis... I never think about [stop vulnerability], because the point about a technical barrier - and I've studied the technical aspects of the market for a long time - is that the market shouldn't go there if you are right.
Bruce Kovner
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The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.
William Hazlitt
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No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style.
Jim Henson
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For an author just starting out, you've got to deliver the goods every year or sooner or people will forget you or you will lose momentum. There is a contract that exists between author and reader.
Jasper Fforde
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If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.
Abraham Lincoln