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.
Quotes to Explore
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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 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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When people use their hurt and make a triumph in their song, that helps other people.
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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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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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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'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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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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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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The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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Every day, members of the LGBTQ community deal with challenges that most Americans will never have to face. These challenges appear in the workplace, in your homes, in your community, and even in the halls of Congress.
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Music isn't selling like it used to, but the one thing you can't steal or download is a live show experience or a T-shirt.
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In terms of pace, I think I just have to revisit my relationship with expectations. That has a little bit to do with comparing ourselves to other people and seeing other people's journey and seeing how they had a certain success at a certain age.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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I know that it's axiomatic in the film industry that you're not supposed to let the novelist develop their own story. Well, first of all, that's kind of up to the novelist - because they don't have to sell it. But also, I don't believe it. It's about trust.
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I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.
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It's time for the State Department to permanently change its official policy to allow all members of U.S. citizens' families - no matter what size they are or how many legs they have - to evacuate together when disaster strikes.
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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.
