Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
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I love 'The Wire;' that's my favorite show, so I'll watch that.
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I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
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For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I'm grown up, I realize he was just practicing his martial arts on me.
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Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.
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Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?
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In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'
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I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.
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Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.
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Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.
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My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.
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As kids, we had no clue about the racial stuff that seemed to preoccupy adults. We just enjoyed our life as kids.
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I never quite toed the line.
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London is my home. I miss my family so much; it's hard being away. And I miss salt and vinegar crisps. And Marmite. And good fudge. Oh my God. Clotted cream fudge.
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There are good players, there are great players, and there are those few at the pinnacle - the Peles, Cruyffs and Maradonas.
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
