Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
Quotes to Explore
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Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Reconciliation is a decision that you take in your heart.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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I'm a couch potato. I love to stay in and just watch a DVD with the missus. Or we all go over to Louis's house and watch 'X Factor.'
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I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.
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When I started out, the idea of comfort in shoes was almost a dirty word.
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Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.
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Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
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I don't commit to things unless I have my A-team to do it. And I'm not trying to be cocky, but that shows in my productions. They are top notch!
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At key crossroads in his life, Vernon Davis has continued to make a conscious choice to grow as a person and player. His determination through adversity since his childhood days is commendable.
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It's mad what each generation vilifies. It's not necessarily to do with logic.
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Schmoozers are brownnosers, sycophants more suited to middle management than to the Wild West of the entrepreneurial world.
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I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.
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We show our faces to demand human rights for everyone, everywhere.
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For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.
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If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.
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As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.
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I think the most rewarding part for me is kind of not knowing where the story's going next, and then finding out and being blown away by it.
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I have no big career plan. It is better for me that way.
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As a kid, there was a painting of 'Appeal to the Great Spirit' that I would see when I would get oatmeal bowls out of the cupboard. This painting, it was so real to me that it frightened me.
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I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence. Then I had a chapter. The next thing I knew I was turning acting down.
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I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
