Abraham Lincoln Quotes
When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.
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I am confident that, as elected officials, we can work together with religious, business and civic leaders, as well as the LGBT community, to develop policies that treat all people with dignity and respect.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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I don't mind a bikini bottom.
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The second trial was a fair trial. I do not call it a second trial. I call it a fair trial, as opposed to the first trial, which was an unfair trial, a Roman holiday.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.
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As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.
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We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.
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I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.
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For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.
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My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
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I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.
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It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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The president has undermined trust. No longer will the members of Congress be entitled to accept his veracity. Caveat emptor has become the word. Every member of Congress is on his or her own to determine the truth.
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Trust me, kids - your homework can wait. Don't need to be doing homework while Whose Line is on; skip it!
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Among the events of John McCain's five-and-a-half years of imprisonment and torture in North Vietnam, probably the most heroic, and surely the most celebrated, was his refusal to accept an early release from his captors.
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So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.
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When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.
