Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
Ted Cruz -
The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
Calvin Harris -
I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
E. O. Wilson -
I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.
Karan Mahajan -
You get your heart stomped by the opposite sex, and you're hurting so badly that you write 'Sometimes When We Touch.' But then what happens when you've been married for 25 years? You can't rely on those emotional male-female roller coasters. You have to start using your imagination and the powers of empathy more.
Dan Hill -
I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
Faith Hill
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
Hanya Yanagihara -
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
Saint Augustine -
Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
Zhang Zhidong -
I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
Manuel Puig -
Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
Tavi Gevinson -
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
Zhuangzi
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I've always wanted my own fragrance; Avon pairs with the way I think: what they do and represent, what they do for women, and the good causes such as domestic violence, and breast cancer.
Kate del Castillo -
I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
Paddy Ashdown -
I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
Gary Wright -
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
Edmund Phelps -
It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.
Laura Fraser -
There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
Landon Donovan
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My favorite car is a '69 Barracuda.
Natalie Martinez -
The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.
Uzo Aduba -
Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.
Aristotle -
I just feel like I'm the luckiest person in the world being able to do what I love and be able to do it all day every day if I like, you know, I mean it's great, I love it.
Faith Ringgold -
The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is overdue for measures of democratization and organization.
E. P. Thompson -
I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.
Abraham Lincoln