Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.
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Growing up in the public eye was really tough. When you're 14 and your body is changing, your life is changing, and people are watching every step you make, it's really hard to deal with. But I was pretty lucky, people didn't watch me that closely.
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My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige.
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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My opinion can be completely different after a show.
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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
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I'm a lover of all sorts of music, which makes me a chameleon when it comes to performing anything, whether it's opera or whatever. As long as it's good and it feels good, I'm going to cling to it.
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
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Being outside is a loose theme on 'Paracosm.' Acoustic-sounding instruments have that warmth to them that is really important to communicate. It was really important for me to tell a story – my favorite records have a narrative feel.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
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Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
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TV producers want ratings and are willing to do nearly anything to get them. They gin up artificial conflicts and create an urgency for even the most minor of economic data points.
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Any investment bought via credit always runs the risk of margin calls and, eventually, liquidation.
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There shall always be much silence in a man's conduct. He shall speak only about a matter concerned with wisdom or matters that are necessary to keep his body alive.
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When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player?
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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What between tipping the man who had brought us home, and paying for the broken sculls, and for having been out four hours and a half, it cost us a pretty considerable number of weeks’ pocket-money, that sail. But we learned experience, and they say that is always cheap at any price.
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I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.
