Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.
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I want to thank the many Missourians who have reached out to me and asked me to consider running for the United States Senate.
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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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The problem of working in a mine, you are inside the belly of the monster, and it controls you. The air you breathe, the stones that fall on your head, we had to be on guard.
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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My mother loved fashion and always had a great aesthetic. But she also considered the cost of it, with the kids, that it wasn't something to allow herself.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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I write music every day.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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I was lucky that I started very young, since I had a very clear idea of what I wanted to do. But my father is very conservative, and he never considered fashion to be a real career but something I could pursue as a hobby. He wanted me to be a doctor, and at one point, I thought of becoming a plastic surgeon.
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Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
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And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting.
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Great work comes from great joy. Leave the angst for the movies; do art - that is fun.
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I am nice to everybody. But people really take advantage of it.
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Innovation comes to you from creators who do have a vision and a passion, and that is how we succeeded.
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There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.
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Never change horses in midstream.
