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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The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.
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I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades.
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The 'Ramayana' explores the limits of secular freedom and the limits of religion.
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As policy makers, our interest isn't necessarily the narrow interests of specific corporations but the national security interests of the United States.
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If I made a film today, it would certainly be on digital.
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Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both.
