Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?
Quotes to Explore
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The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible.
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I had no expectations of white people at all.
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If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
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Fashion and music have always played off each other and certainly do for me; I love both so much. But there are definitely those moments when you're playing the right song at the right time in the right place, and it feels like the best job in the world.
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To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.
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A lot of people still disregard something like yoga. I would have as a young player. I would have been too busy playing golf or something.
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When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.
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Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years.
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In many countries, they do not even keep track of how girls are doing in school, or if they are there at all. If we say, 'Girls count,' then we must count girls, so we can see if we are really making progress in educating every girl.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
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I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
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I've never looked at my Facebook page or my website, because I'm fundamentally an amateur.
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There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.
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A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.
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I've learned never say never.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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If you always think about your dreams or goals, work steadfastly towards them and continue to challenge yourself, you will definitely be able to realise those dreams or goals.
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You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.
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Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.
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I require every Taipei student to swim; if they can't pass the test they won't graduate. Why do I do that? Because I think that is very, very important integral part of their education.
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Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.
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Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?
