Abraham Lincoln Quotes
When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
Quotes to Explore
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Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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I think that's just part of how it is with making art. Sometimes you're just flooded with ideas, and then other times you're questioning all the ideas you ever had before, and everything is just... lame.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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Strange, is it not, my brothers, how often in America those great watchwords of human energy - 'Be strong!' 'Know thyself!' 'Hitch your wagon to a star!' - how often these die away into dim whispers when we face these seething millions of black men? And yet do they not belong to them? Are they not their heritage as well as yours?
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I love Star City - it is my home.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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I'm not religious, so theres no church on Sunday.
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I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
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I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.
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I'm rap's vigilante. I'm out for justice.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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I think being bi-continental is something I want to continue. Kuala Lumpur is my home, but L.A. is where I've been able to make the music that I want.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.
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You can spend the rest of your life trying to figure out what other people expect from you, or you can make a decision to let that all go.
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Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon.
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Any time there is a lot of money or ego involved, people tend to behave badly.
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Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ecosystem, and what gets in the way of it is politicians and apathy.
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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
