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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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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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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Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.
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I became friends with the leader of the underground vampire world. He had a fangsmith, so I had a pair made... It has become kind of my signature thing.
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In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.
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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
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I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.
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In hip-hop, there's not a lot of love. There's not a lot of love being spread. It's always like 'I'm stuntin' on you raps, or I'm better than you raps.' It's not a lot of 'Yo man, I idolize you raps.'
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Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
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High tech is for a short time. But art is forever. People still admire a Picasso or a Van Gogh. But they don't admire the steam locomotive anymore.
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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.
