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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• 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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• My mother doesn't have much of a social life with other A-list people. Which in a way I'm very grateful for, because if I do make something of my career I will be able to say it wasn't because I was a Chaplin.

  

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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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• Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

  

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• All I am saying is I will be a senator - should there be any special circumstance where the political forces would believe that there might be a need for my service, I would consider it.

  

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• Yet the harsh fact is that in many places in this country men and women are kept from voting simply because they are Negroes ... No law that we now have on the books ...can insure the right to vote when local officials are determined to deny it.

  

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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
  • Law
  • Prove
  • Policy