Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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We don't have to have the same truths or personal belief systems to love one another and get along.
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The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
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I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.
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There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart. A lot of crazy, unbelievable stuff that's all completely true. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto another.
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GIS, in its digital manifestation of geography, goes beyond just the science. It provides us a framework and a process for applying geography. It brings together observational science and measurement and integrates it with modeling and prediction, analysis, and interpretation so that we can understand things.
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The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.
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You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
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Everyone's path is really different, and you just have to be in the right place at the right time. 'The X Factor' gave me that chance I needed, that platform.
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The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.
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As an entrepreneur, you only fail when you give up.
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.
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I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
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To create a nice relationship with an ex, the love has to change form. I think you just have to put your children first.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Muslims who commit terrorist acts are perverting their religion.
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Beaujolais is so underrated.
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I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty.
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I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was careless because there'd be some cache now in being a northern playwright, but I missed out on that one.
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Whenever there is a challenge, there is also an opportunity to face it, to demonstrate and develop our will and determination.
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There are many possible interpretations of what it means to create dangerously, and Albert Camus, like the poet Osip Mandelstam, suggests that it is creating as a revolt against silence, creating when both the creation and the reception, the writing and the reading, are dangerous undertakings, disobedience to a directive.
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I can but die... and I believe in God. Let me try and wait His will in silence.
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There is a silence that matches our best possibilities when we have learned to listen to others. We can master the art of being quiet in order to be able to hear clearly what others are saying. . . . We need to cut off the garbled static of our own preoccupations to give to people who want our quiet attention.
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I am rather inclined to silence.
