Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Quotes to Explore
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When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.
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I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.
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I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
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I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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Mr. Trump, you were elected mainly because you found a way to connect with the average blue-collar worker who's sick of the games politicians have been playing for years. Those same blue-collar folks, who go to church, want to feed their families, have to pay their taxes.
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Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
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Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they're so transparent. Like men.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.
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The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.
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In later years, it would become fashionable to say of the missionaries, 'They came to the islands to do good, and they did right well.' Others made jest of the missionary slogan, 'They came to a nation in darkness; they left it in light,' by pointing out: 'Of course they left Hawaii lighter. They stole every goddamned thing that wasn't nailed down.'
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I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, no.
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Black was not the universal hue of mourning in Europe. In Castile, white obtained on the death of its princes.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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With kiting, you have to land a trick, and in that instant you know whether you won or lost - I knew I could become the best in the world if I trained. But with acting, there are different variations; there's not a right or wrong way. It's so hard because it's so out of your hands. I have no idea what's going to happen!
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
