Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.
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Being on the road with rock, it's pretty much 90 percent guys.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we know is linked to depression. We don't have a full picture.
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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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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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I love romantic comedies, or romantic dramas - basically anything with love in it.
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Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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There has been a big debate about it: can a black man play a Nordic character?
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I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!
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I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.
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I don't believe in hostile moves. I don't believe they carry any value.
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If you look over the course of a hundred years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that's held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings.
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As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.
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My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.
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Every woman has a mother, and every woman will have an issue with that mother and things that mother did or didn't do. It just depends on how you choose to process the lessons that you learned from your own mother.
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When you stop being nervous is when you should retire. I'm always a little nervous for anything I do because when complacency sets in, that's when I feel it's time to move on to something else.
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The Reagan-Bush years have exalted private gain over public obligation, special interests over the common good, wealth and fame over work and family. The 1980s ushered in a Gilded Age of greed and selfishness, of irresponsibility and excess, and of neglect.
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Some Buddhists, however, never seem to get past the void, and I suppose I view this as a kind of Buddhist 'Old Testament' that I don't especially like.
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Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.
