Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me.
Quotes to Explore
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If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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I read everything and anything. I love books.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
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You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.
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I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
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I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
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In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of 'overpermiticisation' - requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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I'm a big fan of Samantha Bee's.
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I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films.
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I lived for a year in Scotland. British sign language is very different from American.
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There is no rule book, no right or wrong; you just have to make it up and do the very best you can to care for your family.
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It's not like I'm some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them more off the field. I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that.
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Real to Reel is a rare opportunity for new filmmakers to screen their work for industry insiders.
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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.
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Stories of all lengths and depths come from different parts of the cave. For a novel, you must lay in mental, physical and spiritual provision as for a siege or for a time of hectic explosions, while a short story is, or can be, a steady, timed flame like the lighting of a blow lamp on a building site full of dry tinder.
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Goethe said that the worst thing in art is technical facility accompanied by triteness. Many an artist, like God, has never needed to think twice about anything. His works are the mad scene from Giselle, on ice skates: he weeps, pulls out his hair-holding his wrists like Lifar-and tells you what Life is, all at a gliding forty miles an hour.
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If I acted like I did onstage in normal life, everyone would probably hate me.
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I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me.
