Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
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People say, 'Are you going to be beating up one side or the other side?' It's everybody. It's the entire education establishment that is in power.
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I am very concerned about nutrition and always try to be careful about what I eat.
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I don't watch much television. My old TV agent used to always get mad at me because he'd send me out on auditions and I'd be like, 'What's this show?' and he'd be like, 'It's literally the top show on television.' I wasn't allowed to watch TV as a kid.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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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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Can we really mobilize support, even of friends, when we tell them that if you are not with us you are against us?
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.
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I was very quiet at college and had a certain group of friends.
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I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.
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I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.
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Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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The economic costs of starting your own business can be significant; in fact, most new startup companies fail because of undercapitalization.
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I was the boss of ambassadors in 270 countries.
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If the risk is fully aligned with your purpose and mission, then it's worth considering.
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The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality.
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Freedom's skeptics must understand that the democracy that hates you is less dangerous than the dictator who loves you. Indeed, it is the absence of democracy that represents the real threat to peace.
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Mede spoke with amused tolerance, as physicists generally speak of biologists.
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Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both.
