Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Quotes to Explore
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I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.
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I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and he goosed the process.
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I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.
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The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
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I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.
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Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
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The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.
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When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.
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My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.
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I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.
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People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'
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In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.
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I'm a strange person - I don't really get rewards out of how many hits I have on YouTube. I love it, and I'm grateful, and it's important to me. But does it equal peace within me? No, it doesn't.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.
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I'm not politically correct.
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I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'
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I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.
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I love cooking and baking.
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If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.
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You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth.
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As a veterinarian and lover of animals, I feel the time is now to stop the practice of horse soring for good.
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I am trying to find out why a subject does look so marvelous, and trying to make that sensation manifest on a flat surface.
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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
