Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert? I think that in such a cse to silence the agitator and save the boy is not only constitutional but withal a great mercy.
Abraham Lincoln
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
Jack Germond
When I finish a film, I want to forget it. I never like to repeat myself. Maybe, when I am dead, they will find certain consistencies in the style of my films, but I never want one film to look like another.
Otto Preminger
I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.
Garry Shandling
I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
Ira Sachs
In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasn't like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it.
Lance Henriksen
It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
I think 'Trial & Retribution' as a brand can go on forever. Its joy is that it has, to an extent, a formula, which gives a comfort routine for viewers. But we allow our directors total autarchy in putting their personalities on their stories.
Victoria Smurfit
So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
Barbara Ehrenreich
So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done.
Vince Cable
I like to do my own make-up.
Kate Winslet
It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.
Kacey Musgraves
Real nutrition comes from soybeans, almonds, rice, and other healthy vegetable sources, not from a cow's udder.
Ingrid Newkirk
Where there is humility, there is more success, and lasting success.
Patrick Lencioni
The way is long and dreary,The path is bleak and bare;Our feet are worn and weary,But we will not despair;More weary was Thy burden,More desolate Thy ways,O Lamb of God, who takestThe sin of the world away,Have mercy upon us.
Adelaide Anne Procter
Everybody cryin' mercy / When they don't know the meaning of the word.
Mose Allison
You can ask anybody in the room. My numbers are the worst in here but I'm still a jerk to everybody, yelling at everybody, getting them going. Once I get it back, then I'll be even worse to the guys.
Billy Koch
Being single is like liking a Phil Spector record.
Brian Wilson
Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert? I think that in such a cse to silence the agitator and save the boy is not only constitutional but withal a great mercy.
Abraham Lincoln
