Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.Abraham Lincoln
Quotes to Explore
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I wasn't thinking of a sequel when I finished 'Life Class.' What changed my mind was the perception that the characters had a lot of life left in them, a lot of unresolved conflicts, and also I became interested in the Tonks pastel portraits of facially disfigured soldiers and in the whole area of facial reconstruction.
Pat Barker -
'Press Your Luck' was probably the most exciting because of the unpredictability of the game and how I won on one of the three days on the very last spin against all odds. It was one of those great unpredictable game show moments.
Randy West -
The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
Harold Nicolson -
I don't think about whether it's gonna be a dance record or a ballad or anything when I'm making music. I sit in the studio and I think, 'How am I feeling today?' and I write how I feel. It's really, really simple.
Sam Smith -
Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.
Carl Hiaasen -
It wasn't really until the 10th or 11th grade when I started to play well, and football took the place of baseball, which was my love when I was five years old. I don't know what happened; baseball just got boring to me, I guess.
Calvin Johnson
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People in Texas wear cowboy hats; they're good at keeping the sun off your neck and face.
Taylor Sheridan -
Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.
Larry Wilcox -
I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough.
Ted Turner -
I squeeze oranges every morning to make juice.
Utada Hikaru -
For me, writing is a love – hate relationship.
Larry Wall -
I'm not a big one for lots of genitals flapping in the films.
Campbell Scott
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It wasn't just OK to achieve in my family - it was expected.
Tananarive Due -
I love coming to India, and I find the people out here very warm and social as compared to people in the U.S.
Navi Rawat -
Because of its shortcomings - driving range, cost, and recharging time - the electric vehicle is not a viable replacement for most conventional cars.
Takeshi Uchiyamada -
As a drummer, you're always fighting for a level that you never quite attain.
Damien Chazelle -
But though I repeated my plea, and waited on my knees for nearly an hour, there was no answer.
N. K. Jemisin -
I read what I like to write: romantic suspense. I also love thrillers and novels of suspense, but I can't handle extreme violence and torture.
Jayne Ann Krentz
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Incorporating in their colorful, slashing, superbly readable pages, the major themes of the "left" opposition under Walpole, these libertarian tracts, emerging first in the form of denunciations of standing armies in the reign of William III, left an indelible imprint on the "country" mind everywhere in the English-speaking world.
Bernard Bailyn -
I will continue to get behind the wheel of a racing car as long as I am able. But that could all end tomorrow.
Paul Newman -
Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
Walter Benjamin -
Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.
Abraham Lincoln