Abraham Lincoln Quotes
The Republican principle, the unalterable principle, never to be lost sight of, is that slavery is wrong.
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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I would describe my sound as classic Motown.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'
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Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
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In the history of pilot reports, 'Seinfeld' has got to be one of the worst of all time.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.
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To me, it's just like, if you have talent, and you're lucky enough to find where you fit, and you work with the right people, it's not exalted at all.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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I have a strange relationship with influences because mine are mostly literary or painters or poets, who I'll even quote. I don't do tributes to cinema.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay away from that.
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We are not like dogs who are kind of "What am I going to eat today? Oh, there is a rabbit; I am going to go chase it."
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Usher is definitely somebody I came up listening to.
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Your genetics load the gun. Your lifestyle pulls the trigger.
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The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius.
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The Republican principle, the unalterable principle, never to be lost sight of, is that slavery is wrong.
