Abraham Lincoln Quotes

We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.

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• Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Life
  • Death
  • Lies

• Matching shoes and bags immediately age you by 10 years.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • Age
  • You
  • Shoes

• When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Work
  • Free
  • Resume

• Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Awesome
  • Dinner
  • Bread

• We've got a yawl named the Phebe, which is named for a boat in a whaling journal my father and I edited. We keep a copy of the journal on board.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Father
  • Boat
  • Copy

• I believe how you measure a good movie is how many times you can see it. With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast. I'm always the 'less is more' guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Real

• We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Mistake

• If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • You
  • Ideas
  • Creative

• Cornwall bears a certain resemblance to Italy: each is like a leg or boot, but Italy stands a-tiptoe to the south, whereas Cornwall is thrust out to the west. But, whereas Italy is kicking Sicily as a football, Cornwall has but the shattered group of the Scilly Isles at its toe.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Football
  • Group
  • Leg

• In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Work
  • Smart
  • Profound

• I don't have a problem with recognition... It's very, very rarely about who I am, it's always, 'I love your work.'... It's always in relation to my work, which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to, 'Oh, you're a famous personality.'

  

  C. C. H. Pounder
  • Work
  • Problem
  • Personality

• My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.

  

  Hamlin Garland
  • Thinking
  • Nature
  • Day

• I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we're not, but we keep trying.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Trying
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• It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Way
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  • Hollywood

• What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • World
  • Live
  • Crazy

• I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Experience
  • Wish
  • Colleagues

• My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way up from the street. He was homeless, but eventually he got a car so he could sell from the boot. And by the 1980s, he was a millionaire wholesaling to companies like Topshop. So in a way, fashion put me in England.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Up
  • Fashion
  • Car

• I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.

  

  Eddy Arnold
  • Trying
  • Me
  • Audience

• Most of my friends - when I was five, six, seven years old - their dads were working in an auto plant in Detroit until 5:30, and then they were sat in rush hour. They weren't around as much. My dad finished at three o'clock, so he was just around more.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Friends
  • Dad
  • Old

• Comets are like cats: they have tails, and they do precisely what they want.

  

  David H. Levy
  • Want
  • Cats
  • Comets

• Every day, members of the LGBTQ community deal with challenges that most Americans will never have to face. These challenges appear in the workplace, in your homes, in your community, and even in the halls of Congress.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Community
  • Day
  • Challenges

• If you're going to self - publish, you need to know why you're doing it, what you want to accomplish, and how you plan to implement that.

  

  Victoria Strauss
  • Why
  • Want
  • Self

• We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Want
  • Slavery
  • Deals