Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to particular cases.
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I think it's important to be extremely proud of one's origins, especially when you are a foreign actress with ethnic features.
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I have long been a supporter of The Princes Trust, and so when American Express asked me to launch Amex Be Inspired and help young people build their confidence and fulfil their potential, I was delighted to get involved.
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My life is basically a big chunk of greatness.
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Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.
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In my childhood, I had a religious assistant who always told me, if you can really laugh with full abandonment, it's very good for your health.
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On Election Day, Ralph Nader will appear on the presidential ballot in only 45 states. Yeah, Nader said, this is really disappointing, I wanted to embarrass myself in all 50 states. That was the plan.
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It's not the thing you fling, it's the fling itself.
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Life is a plant that grows out of death.
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Understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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If you know the why, you can live any how.
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One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to today's audience.
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Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.
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The essence of religion is inertia; the essence of science is change. It is the function of the one to preserve, it is the function of the other to improve. If, as in Egypt, they are firmly chained together, either science will advance, in which case the religion will be altered, or the religion will preserve its purity, and science will congeal.
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I always embrace the worst-case scenario.
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Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to particular cases.
