Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
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I could never say Rza's trash. But he didn't come with the right formula on '8 Diagrams.' I think 'Cuban Linx 2' will have the Clan back where they need to be, but then it's up for the Clan to be back where they need to be, too. 'Cos it ain't just the album, you know what I mean? It's everything.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
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I did two or three plays every summer.
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I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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I don't work hard enough. If I had worked harder I might have been prime minister.
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I've told youngsters not to write their autobiographical novel at the age of twenty-one; to save it for the time when they're fifty-one or sixty-one. They should write other novels first, to learn their craft; they shouldn't cut their teeth on the valuable material of childhood because they'll never have better material, ever, to work with.
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I love words. Sudoku I don't get into, I'm not into numbers that much, and there are people who are hooked on that. But crossword puzzles, I just can't - if I get a puppy and I paper train him and I put the - if all of a sudden I'd open the paper and there's a crossword puzzle - 'No, no, you can't go on that, honey. I'll take it.'
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Women's director! Well, I'm very pleased to be considered a master of anything, but remember, for every Jill there was a Jack. People like to pigeonhole you - it's a shortcut, I guess, but once they do, you're stuck with it.
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Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.
