Abraham Lincoln Quotes
A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.
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I adored my mom. I thought she was the best. I loved her very much.
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Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.
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I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.
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My favorite spot is the Maldives. Since I travel so much for work, I like to go to places that are very secluded and quiet.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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I never said most of the things I said.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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I understand that the tendency of foreign countries in recent years has been to establish particularly close relations with one or two others among all the countries which have general relations. In time of peace, they make secret treaties in advance, and in wartime, they aid one another with military provisions and armaments.
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I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.
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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
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The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.
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The reader reads aloud, with a sing-song up … then down … then down again cadence. My mood shifts from merely reluctant to derisive. It’s a tired reading style. I’m sick of it. It attaches more importance to the words than the words themselves—as they’ve been arranged—could possibly sustain, and it gives poets and poetry a bad name.
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We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The only palliative is [...] by reading old books. [...] the books of the future would be just as good [...], but unfortunately we cannot get at them.
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You'll sleep with the lights on after reading Gregg Olsen.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.
