Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.
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I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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I don't seek validation outside, not even with the audience. Today they like me, but tomorrow they may hate me. I don't want to be anybody's role model.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?
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If you were blessed with a fortunate position... why wouldn't you want to impact the world around you as much as possible?
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There is no life without sport and no sport without competition.
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I was in film before I was on stage. I started acting when I was like 12. But, no, I think my mother indoctrinated me very early.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
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In my entire life I have only met four "perfect" people... and I disliked them all.
