Abraham Lincoln Quotes
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
Abraham Lincoln
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If you try to create something that everybody can relate to, you're gonna make something that nobody can relate to.
Barry Jenkins
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
Karl Marlantes
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Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.
Damon Hill
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I'm such a foodie, and I actually think I would rather lose my hearing than my taste.
Malin Akerman
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While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
Tariq Ramadan
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You have to actually be weighted to something to do the moonwalk, you know.
Mae Jemison
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I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'
Tavis Smiley
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For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.
Maisie Williams
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Bill Cosby, you know, he's a delightful guy.
Barry Corbin
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
Yeardley Smith
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I don't know; it's hard for me to understand people that want to get out there and protest on the first day we elect a new guy.
D. B. Sweeney
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When I did 'The Cell' - no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too - it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It's nothing fancy - just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.
Kate Klise
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
Ted Deutch
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I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.
P. J. Harvey
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The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.
Oscar Isaac
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Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify.
Dale Archer
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Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty.
Lance Loud
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When I was starting out, I thought about how the Internet is global and that we should have a global name, a name that's interesting. At that time, the best name was Yahoo! Suddenly I thought, 'Alibaba is a good name.'
Jack Ma
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When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.
Frank Herbert
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I have to say that deporting people and calling them 'bad hombres,' then kicking families out with visa violations, upsets me.
Maz Jobrani
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Law, without force, is impotent.
Blaise Pascal
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I would love to make my entire career as the guy who did not get cheered. Of course, I'm still going to get cheered by people who think they're smart, and that's fine - they're acknowledging how good I am at my job - but I don't want cheers; I want the boos. I love it.
Dolph Ziggler
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
Abraham Lincoln
