Abraham Lincoln Quotes

In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.

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• It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.

  

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• It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big pop hits, actually some of the biggest pop hits that hip-hop has ever seen, people are missing that part of their story. People are not counting that blessing.

  

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• The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

  

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• Acting to me is real life - I don't act.

  

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• I do get stopped a bit now and then, but I can go to the supermarket and on the Tube without being noticed. It's usually me that gets starstruck, especially by TV stars.

  

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• The part that I think is one of the most interesting is of course the one that Hayden Christensen plays.

  

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• If I read something and respond to the role, that's what happens, and if those happen to be a few comedies in a row, or not, so be it.

  

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• If we were to inspect ourselves or members of our family and our friends, we would see that we don't really have to go all the way overseas to be mystified - we can be mystified right at home.

  

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• I think it's very helpful having Twitter and all that. I mainly talk about work on Twitter. I keep my personal life separate from my work life, but I think it helps because everybody's on the Internet now - everybody has Facebook; everybody has Twitter.

  

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• The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

  

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• The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.

  

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• We're all biased, right, in many different ways - politically, religiously, ideologically, the way our family raised us - and that's fine. Nobody wants to live in a world where everybody thinks exactly the same. The key, though, is to try to figure out where your biases are holding you back from solving problems.

  

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• He knew she was there by the joy and fear that overwhelmed his heart.

  

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• There is no law of physics that says just because we're connected, there has to be this schism between our physical lives and our digital lives.

  

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• Still got something left to prove. It tends to keep things movin.

  

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• Unbelievable, yet, what else could it be?

  

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• In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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  • Policy