Abraham Lincoln Quotes

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

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I'm a black woman who loves hair. I enjoy changing my hair, having fun with it - just hair! I go from braids, to weaves, to wigs, to natural hair.
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People always ask me about 'Girls' with this kind of hesitation. What do I think of it? I love it. It's awesome. I get a lot of Where do you come down on this? I come down on the side of 'Yay, Lena Dunham. Congratulations. I'm jealous.' She's doing something so fantastic. Maybe it's not for everybody, but it certainly is for me.
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Ethiopia is such a great country, beautiful place.
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New York is such a versatile city, and there's always something new to discover.
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Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
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He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs.
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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
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I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.
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I'm very English. I'm white. I mean, I'm so pale. With spray tans they start peeling and start getting really dirty looking.
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I conceived the original 'Deus Ex' and was the project director on the game.
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I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
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I can't really dress rock 'n' roll any more because I'm the wrong side of 40, but I want that to be the fashion.
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Music is like making love: either all or nothing.
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Good deeds, create good will, which opens the heart to the good news.
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To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.
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First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people.
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If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.