Abraham Lincoln Quotes
All I ask for the negro is that if you not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little let him enjoy.
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I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and he goosed the process.
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Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
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I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.
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I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.
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I actually did go through severe depression and anxiety attacks where I couldn't sleep for weeks. It was definitely several months of being not myself.
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When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me.
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Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.
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You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
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Thank goodness for all the things you are not! Thank goodness you're not something someone forgot, and left all alone in some punkerish place like a rusty tin coat hanger hanging in space.
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Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.
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Traditionally nerd-based culture is now a big sector of pop culture.
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All I ask for the negro is that if you not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little let him enjoy.
