Abraham Lincoln Quotes
It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.
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That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.
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I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'
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Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
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An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.
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I suppose I could have sat back and pitied myself. For a time I wondered if I'd ever be able to go on to a stage and perform again. After a couple of weeks I began to feel I could fight my way back to health if I put my mind to it. I thought to myself: 'Pity never did anybody any good. Go on. Patsy, show 'em what you can do'
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I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx.
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We need not be intimidated by the wine snob because we know that, in the last analysis, he is only putting on a front. He may know more than we do, but how little he knows in comparison with what there is to know Wine, a hobby as fascinating and as human as one can find. One of the most fascinating aspects of the wine-hobby is the extent to which you learn all the time.
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I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who believe in astrology, magic or the supernatural.
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I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.
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But when you want to come to work, it makes things that much better. Mentally, when you're at work, it doesn't feel like work. When you take the fun part away from basketball, that's a problem.
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As a kitten does what all other kittens do, so a child wants to do what other children do, with a wanting that is as powerful as it is mindless. Since we human beings have to learn what we do, we have to start out that way, but human mindfulness begins where that wish to be the same leaves off.
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I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then you need to try new things. And he was very willing to try unorthodox approaches when the orthodox approach had shown that it was not adequate.
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I'm a home girl. I like to stay home.
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Seven hundred thousand men are said to have perished in the first two expeditions, which had been thus commenced and carried on by the pious zeal of the Christian church, and in the total amount, several million were found numbered with the dead: the awful effects of religious fanaticism presuming upon the aid of heaven.
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O heart, be at peace, because Nor knave nor dolt can break What's not for their applause, Being for a woman's sake.
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Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.
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Leaving the people and places you love, is a reminder of the impermanence of this life. And the permanence of the next.
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It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.
