Abraham Lincoln Quotes
We hope all danger may be overcome; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous.
Quotes to Explore
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My abuela was an incredible cook.
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I always knew I had a voice and I've always known I could sing, but I was too shy to let it come out. I think it's the hardest thing to do, to sing in front of people. When I finally let go and did it, I realized it's what I'm most talented at and what I love to do the most.
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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 began writing when I was still in the British Foreign Service, and it was then understood that even if you wrote about butterfly collecting, you used another name.
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Sergeant Bergdahl may have broken any number of military laws.
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Life is a process not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
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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.
