Abraham Lincoln Quotes
If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.
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You cannot do only one thing.
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I love the 'Lost' ending. I stand by it, but there are a lot of people out there who hate it.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.
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If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have no right to complain, really. I guess it's more of an appeal to the powers that be that the less they interfere, the more likely, actually, they are to get something that works, I think.
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I think there are so many phenomenal runners. I grew up watching Cathy Freeman, Kelly Holmes, and Michael Johnson, so I'd say they are my favourites.
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In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between truth and falsity sometimes isn't.
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God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
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The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.
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I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.
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I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended.
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Especially when you talk about the power of documentary filmmaking, you can't really have a slant; financially, you can't have a slant on the end goals.
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I love people who try to keep the world in control - because the world is inherently not in control.
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We should follow the facts wherever they lead us.
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The heroes of the books I read, The Lord of the Rings and the Foundation series, always felt a duty to save the world.
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If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.
