Abraham Lincoln Quotes

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

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• I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Army
  • Year
  • Soldier

• In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • People
  • Live
  • Death

• When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Up
  • Me
  • Games

• Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Life
  • Band
  • Like

• I was an expert horseman.

  

  Harry Carey, Jr.
  • Expert
  • Horseman

• I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.

  

  Abe Lemons
  • Want
  • Die
  • Sick

• I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Guy
  • Free
  • College

• I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty. Or maybe I don't have the guts to admit that I do.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • People
  • Truth
  • History

• As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Up
  • World
  • Thoughts

• I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Way
  • Never
  • Air

• I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Time
  • Live
  • High

• Whatever its flaws, the United Nations is still the only institution that brings together all the countries of the world. And it is the best forum for the United States to spur countries to act - and to hold them accountable when they don't.

  

  Samantha Power
  • World
  • Together
  • Best

• My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.

  

  Jack Black
  • Children
  • Love
  • Death

• Honestly, I'd love to say I live this amazing Hollywood lifestyle, but actually, I'm at home with my same friends and cooking. I crochet, I do watercolor. I think what surprised me the most is that that isn't the lifestyle everyone necessarily lives.

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • Live
  • Love
  • Home

• I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Passion

• I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Aging

• I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • World
  • Want
  • I Can

• The Irish are trying to be American, that's all it is. Everything American does Ireland has to do as well. Next thing you know, the Irish are going to start saying 'aluminum', and that'll be the last straw as far as I'm concerned. If that happens, I'm not going back! Everyone's got their own reasons to dislike Americans, 'aluminum' is top of my fucking list, ladies and gentleman. Aluminum cans, aluminum – what the fuck's aluminum foil? Honestly! Everyone knows it's pronounced 'tin'!

  

  Ed Byrne
  • American
  • Irish
  • Reasons

• If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.

  

  T. H. White
  • People
  • Knows
  • Perfection

• I think there's a connection with 'Nightcrawler' and 'Blowup' and other films where visual imagery is integral to the story. It allows you to play with images.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Think
  • Story
  • Connection

• The goal of Tesla is to accelerate sustainable energy, so we're going to take a step back and think about what's most likely to achieve that goal.

  

  Elon Musk
  • Energy

• I was obsessed with Nintendo.

  

  Jonathan Groff

• The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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