Abraham Lincoln Quotes

I am the President of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me these votes.

Abraham Lincoln

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• I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Different
  • Art
  • Words

• I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Life
  • Good
  • Habits

• People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • People
  • Women
  • You

• Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Day
  • Smile
  • Humor

• So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Me
  • Say
  • Give

• India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Up
  • Country
  • Death

• It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Life
  • Family
  • Money

• Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.

  

  Ted Turner
  • World
  • Man
  • Myself

• Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Exercise
  • Innovation
  • Most

• Social media buzz can lead to huge successes when people spread the word about something they love and want to share. But authors creating their own buzz? Making their own noise? It's hard to make a lot of noise on our own about our own work. Except, sadly, negative noise.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Work
  • Negative

• I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Gang

• I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Want

• I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Work
  • Political
  • Human

• I want to be in a position where I can function as a human being.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Want
  • Human
  • Human being

• It's the cushiest job, but some lines are so funny that I crack up.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Up
  • Job
  • Funny

• I really wasn't into comic books growing up.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Books

• Every story about me is so heavy and dramatic. That's not how I do life. But that's the impression people have, and that's what keeps getting reiterated. As if I'm still stuck in all the muck of the past. And I am so not.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Past
  • Story
  • Dramatic

• You can work, shop, do everything from home, and I find this unsettling.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Work
  • Home
  • Find

• Whether Barack Obama is simply incompetent as president or has some hidden agenda to undermine this country, at home and abroad, he has nearly everything he needs to ruin America, including a fool for a vice president

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Country
  • Home
  • President

• At the end of our lives, we will not be judged by the highest public office we attained in our lifetime, if that were true the current president George W. Bush would hold as much esteem as Franklin Roosevelt in our country, and Nelson Mandela in his. That cannot be the case. Rather, we will each be judged by the mark we've left on others.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
  • President
  • Lifetime
  • Judged

• President Obama understands women. He trusts women. And on every issue that matters to us, he stands with women.

  

  Cecile Richards
  • Matter
  • President
  • Issues

• Most people are looking for security, a nice, safe, prosperous future. And there's nothing wrong with that. It's called the American Dream.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • People
  • American
  • Future

• I am the President of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me these votes.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • President
  • Votes
  • United States of America