Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Lincoln called laughter "the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life."

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• In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.

  

  Garrett Neff
  • College
  • Beginning
  • Summer

• My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Film
  • Favorite
  • Finale

• Every morning I wake up and thank God.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • God
  • Morning

• Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Music
  • Influence
  • Big

• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

  

  Florence King
  • Time
  • World
  • Mind

• Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Problem
  • Planning
  • Housing

• I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Simple
  • Ocean
  • Beach

• I'm really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I'm more about the work, and 'The Big C' was amazing, so I wanted to be a part of it.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Work
  • Job
  • Amazing

• The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Age
  • Me
  • Attention

• Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Attitude
  • Excellence
  • Skill

• I do two cups of coffee with a little bit of raw sugar and soy creamer, and then I do a bowl of plain oatmeal with walnuts and blueberries. Now, if I could do what I really wanted to do with my life, every morning I would have a salami-and-cheese omelet with hash browns and a buttermilk biscuit - and pancakes. But my heart would explode.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Morning

• On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Good
  • Great
  • American

• I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Friends
  • Mother
  • Understand

• In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.

  

  Karen Maitland
  • Animals
  • London
  • Elephant

• Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Free
  • Independent
  • Africa

• Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Business
  • Career
  • Tennis

• I will say I am the sum of my books.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Books
  • Sum

• I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Like
  • Take
  • Sensitive

• The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Music
  • American
  • Influence

• When I was a teenager, the actors I was really into were Mickey Rourke and Sean Penn. I saw 'Rumble Fish' on my 16th birthday, and around the same time, it was 'Falcon and the Snowman' and 'Bad Boys' from Sean Penn.

  

  Aidan Gillen
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Teenager

• You know, when you're trying to get better at golf, you're always measuring your game up against other people to see what you've got to do to get better and to see if you can compete with them.

  

  Lucas Black
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• Anytime I've had a big thing that's ever pierced and cut across the Internet, it was a fight for justice. Justice. And when you say justice, it doesn't have to be war. Justice could just be clearing a path for people to dream properly.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • War
  • Dream

• I do a lot of conferences, and I did a campaign with the Cerebral Palsy Foundation called "Just Say Hi." They get celebrities to record little messages about how you start a conversation with someone who has a disability, which is to "Just say hi."

  

  Zach Anner
  • Records
  • Foundation
  • Campaigns

• Lincoln called laughter "the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life."

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Life
  • Laughter
  • Lincoln