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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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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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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In my life so far, I have discovered that there are really only two kinds of people: those who are for you, and those who are against you. Learn to recognize them, for they are often and easily mistaken for each other.
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I don't have time to be depressed.
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I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on documenting reality - so 'autobiographical,' to me, is closer in meaning to 'fiction' than 'autobiography.'
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The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.
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You create the color first, and then the name that fits. It depends - there are no rules. You watch a fabulous old movie, and you suddenly get inspired by it to create a lipstick shade, or you walk through a gorgeous garden and find the most beautiful flower shade for an eye shadow, and then you name it.
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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.
