Abraham Lincoln Quotes
President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an associate. "You should try to destroy them." "Am I not destroying my enemies," Lincoln gently replied, "when I make them my friends?"
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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The first impression that I liked doing was an impression of Cheri Oteri's Barbara Walters impression on 'SNL.' I found that I could mimic that pretty well, and people got a kick out of that.
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When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.
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In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.
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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
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I love fast food, but you have to try to eat healthy.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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I shall always be a priest of love.
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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I love my job so much, and not everyone can say that and I recognize how lucky that is.
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I think that being in an extreme natural setting, and letting the natural world and what it's doing permeate your thoughts, is super-interesting and super-important.
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I hate singers, a miserable crew who think that music exists only in their own throats.
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I don't think I possess any skill that anyone else doesn't have. I've just had perhaps more of an opportunity, more of an exposure, and been fortunate to survive a lot of situations that many other weren't so lucky to make it. It's not how close can you get to the ground, but how precise can you fly the airplane. If you feel so careless with you life that you want to be the world's lowest flying aviator you might do it for a while. But there are a great many former friends of mine who are no longer with us simply because they cut their margins to close.
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President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an associate. "You should try to destroy them." "Am I not destroying my enemies," Lincoln gently replied, "when I make them my friends?"
