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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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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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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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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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 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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I am a hopeless romantic who falls in lust and gets in trouble. I love my work and am very productive, yet I always find time to play.
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I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.
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I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.
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My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
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I'm just here to compete and do the best I can and let things play out and just be the best teammate I can be, regardless of the situation.
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By taking the time to stop and appreciate who you are and what you've achieved - and perhaps learned through a few mistakes, stumbles and losses - you actually can enhance everything about you. Self-acknowledgment and appreciation are what give you the insights and awareness to move forward toward higher goals and accomplishments.
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A mom can't afford to be sick.
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Do you even know who the enemy is?" "I think... it's me".
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It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.
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In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennifer Lopez, movies bombed, therefore he must be a sort of thoughtless dilettante, solipsistic consumer blahblahblah. It's hard to shake those sort of narratives.
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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?
