Abraham Lincoln Quotes
We hope all danger may be overcome; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous.
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My abuela was an incredible cook.
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I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how they will be seen by others through their work. When you create, you aspire to do justice to yourself, to remake yourself, and there is always the fear that you will expose the very thing that you hoped to transform.
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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
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I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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I'm not graceful.
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Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
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That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he will not put more on me than I can bear. And so I always say, 'Lord, I trust you with me.' So I figure, anything that happens in my life, I must be able to bear it, or he wouldn't allow it to happen.
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Some things have to be believed to be seen.
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I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
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In the end, the market will decide which is the better performer: dirty coal-fired power or clean wind and solar. Market-based competition. That doesn't sound like communism to me.
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I've watched Urkel since I was a little kid.
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'Mixtape' sounds retro! I used to make lots of mixed tapes. It was one of those '90s things - every girl gave them to her best friend. I remember exchanging a few with a boy on a bus when I was 14. I thought he hated me, but in hindsight, maybe he was in love with me, because he gave me the best music.
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I've been very fortunate in my life.
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It's perfectly O.K. to not be completely predictable. I am a person, and I have individual opinions that may not line up ideologically.
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Dream, but expect nothing. Desire, but expect nothing. Hope, but expect nothing. Release your need to control and gain real control.
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It was the 'Gaucho' album that finished us off. We had pursued an idea beyond the point where it was practical. That album took about two years, and we were working on it all of that time - all these endless tracking sessions involving different musicians. It took forever, and it was a very painful process.
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We hope all danger may be overcome; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous.
