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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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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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 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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Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.
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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 have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another.
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In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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When people use their hurt and make a triumph in their song, that helps other people.
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I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.
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Before I started surfing, I don't even know if I would have dived into the water at night alone. It was still scary.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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The important thing is to do what you most love in the best way. If you love literature, you could be a great writer and perhaps one day become a Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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I remember the absolute, joyous freedom I felt when I first went to college: I had no bedtime, no curfew, no rules - I loved it. I was in charge. I couldn't believe I didn't have to answer to anyone.
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I did some research once on the way people in the past imagined the year 2000. They tended to picture the things they already had getting more sophisticated - flying cars, self-cleaning windows. And the folks in the early 1900s had a wildly optimistic estimate of the future of pneumatic tubes.
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I work with a group of actors, and whenever one of us has an audition, we all get together, and we all work together on it. I think it takes us back to our film school days, our drama school days, us just working together and figuring it out because somebody else is going to see something in the material that you won't see.
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I was going to be the head wrangler at a ranch in Wyoming, and the reason I didn't take the job is because I couldn't have my family there - the family had to stay in town. I just wasn't willing to do that.
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All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general.
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I'm not interested in playing the field and all that stuff because frankly I'm not into frivolous relationships.
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Oil wells never really run dry. A big company will drain maybe 40% of a field. Pulling out the rest of the oil, which requires an outlay of incrementally more cash per barrel, often proves uneconomical for big companies with big overheads.
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'Clash Of The Titans' is one of the biggest movies I've done; it was certainly the most effects I've worked with.
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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
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I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without taking a lot of heat from his peers.
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So you have to take the good with the bad.
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Kids have always play-fought, but I think my generation had a particularly privileged cultural fantasy surrounding military violence.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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I grew up on the side of the stage. I never had a fear of an audience. I never felt like they were separated from us. We were all in the living room, and it happens to be a big living room. I continue to operate on that assumption.
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I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues.
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My view of civilization is that there have always been small pockets of good, decent, kind people surrounded by corrupt and evil power structures. It's always a battle to stay on the side of good.
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As long as you are successful and winning matches, the language is no problem at all. But when the results are insufficient, the difficulties begin. At this time, a coach needs to go into more detail with his instructions, and that's where the problems can lie.
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I would love to have seen a male-female relationship that had nothing to do with falling in love, I'd love to prove, even on TV - even if it's not true! - that men and women can be friends without any kind of involvement.
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I want my little girl to tell me who she is so I can encourage her and not impose my desires for her on her life. I want her to dream big and to know that if she is willing to earn it, she can have anything - and become anything.
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I wonder what kind of lives they will have built for themselves when they turn 45 and can't really have any connection with people because they are so used to fleeting sexual.
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Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.
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When I play, I'm so in the moment that I can't really remember what happened afterwards. It's a rare experience for a thinking person like me.
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Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished.
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Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
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I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute... Just not well.
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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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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.
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I think the Supreme Court has not yet caught up to an era in which one keeps one's papers in a cloud, not a castle.
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Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
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Like most people - unless they're very practised at it or have no warm blood at all in their veins - I feel a little apprehensive about the red carpet. It's always a bit bewildering when people are taking pictures and asking questions before the ceremony.
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With a young-adult series, you need to get a lot of books out on the market quickly. Teenagers aren't going to wait years and years for the next book.
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If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
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Across the globe, disadvantaged children are not living up to their potential because if they attend school at all, the schools are usually not designed to meet their extra needs.
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Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.
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As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt learned when he tried to pack the Supreme Court, the three branches of government are coequal for a reason. Neither the executive branch or the legislative branch should use the third branch to a pursue a partisan agenda.
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It's really empowering to have curly hair.
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My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.
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Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.
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I didn't know who the hell I was. I was whoever they wanted me to be.
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If it seems like you are playing around and not practicing, that's when you know you really love it.
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My college friends call me Karu, which is the worst. Only in our country can we make a short form for a short name. But otherwise, I've never had a pet name all my life. But now, in official meetings, someone will call me KJo. And I'll judge that person in my head. Just call me Karan.
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I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.
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Repentance is a sweet solace to conscience as well as the most complete atonement to the Supreme Judge of our offenses; notwithstanding, the tongue of malevolence and scurrility may be continually preparing its most poisonous ingredients for the punishment of a crime, which has already received more than half a pardon.
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Thus human beings judge of one another, superficially, casually, throwing contempt on one another, with but little reason, and no charity.
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'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?
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If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.
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It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
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I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I've been pretty effective once I've gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.
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I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.
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I always want to become better. If never being satisfied is a problem, then I have it. At least it's a good problem.
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We in this entertainment industry try to act like we're so super powerful. we're not being honest, because we're human, and in our humanity there's a little fear.
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If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.
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I couldn't do what I do day-in and day-out if I didn't love the game.
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The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home to them, not only through agitation and propaganda, but also by actions.
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I trained in medicine after pursuing an academic career in the humanities, mainly because of my interest in the relationship between mind and body, and between mind and brain.
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I would never say I will stay in electronic music for the rest of my life. I will always do whatever I feel like at that moment.
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At the end of the day, you know yourself best.
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I don't care about making a fool of myself on stage anymore. I don't care what people think.
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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.
