Abraham Lincoln Quotes

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Abraham Lincoln

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• I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Worry

• I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Different
  • Character
  • Myself

• I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Time
  • Work
  • End

• I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Different
  • History
  • Alone

• For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Same
  • Circumstances

• I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Strong
  • Interesting

• I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.

  

  Yuna
  • Think
  • Always
  • Beginning

• I'm a little angry in life.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Life
  • Angry
  • Little

• But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Career
  • Like
  • Never

• In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grave, and all in-between.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Music
  • Culture
  • You

• You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Know

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food - unless, of course, it's a mallard.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Life
  • Food
  • Quality

• I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Long
  • Art
  • Job

• Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Single
  • Car
  • Design

• Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Soul
  • Death
  • Peace

• Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Style

• Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Country
  • Laws
  • India

• Moviegoers like to believe that those they have made stars are great actors. People used to say that Gary Cooper was a fine actor - probably because when they looked in his face they were ready to give him their power of attorney.

  

  Pauline Kael
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• There's just a total boatload of crazy that goes with singing live for the first time when you're 60 years old.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Time
  • Live
  • Crazy

• I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my genes because I can't do anything about them.

  

  Angela Duckworth
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I enjoy talking to you more than anybody else because I never feel I am giving myself away and so can admit to shady, dishonest, crawling, cowardly, unjust, arrogant, snobbish, lecherous, perverted and generally shameful feelings that I don't want anybody else to know about; but most of all because I am always on the verge of violent laughter when talking to you.If you were here, I keep thinking, we would spend the time in talk and drink and smoke and I should be laughing a lot of the time, and I should be enjoying myself a lot of the time.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Giving

• By giving our students practice in talking with others, we give them frames for thinking on their own.

  

  Lev Vygotsky
  • Thinking
  • Giving
  • Practice

• Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Time
  • Lost
  • Nothing