Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.
Quotes to Explore
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We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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I thought Beverly Hills was a gated community. I always drove around Beverly Hills because I thought that there's a guard that was going to stop me.
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
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In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Shiva reminds us that endings are beginnings, and that our world is constantly undergoing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth.
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We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.
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It's funny, because when I was in college, all my professors said, 'You should do comedy.' And I was like, 'No! No!' But I was able to get my foot in the door through comedy. I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to do it.
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I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.
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I think globalization is a great thing. And now a lot of people complain about globalization; a lot of people don't like, you know, the globalize of the concept, the idea of the results. I think the globalization is a great idea and to create a lot of jobs.
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The distinction between reality and fiction in America seems like it is becoming really blurry. With its religious fanaticism, reality TV programs and fake news broadcasts being aired by the government, the States feel like they are entering the Dark Ages.
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I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
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I want to make as much of a contribution as I can, to Harvard, to higher education and hopefully, to education around the world.
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My name has opened doors and slammed doors shut.
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Online theft has changed the business model of filmmaking because the DVD market is very soft. So, more ambitious, compelling, character-driven narrative of a certain budget level isn't really a viable business model in the eyes of the studios right now.
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I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.
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In a very short time the army of Northern Virginia was face to face with the Army of the Potomac.
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I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.
