Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
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I'd like to work with Bjork if I could get in the studio with her. We could probably travel to a different planet, you know what I'm saying?
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You get more insight as you get older, on everything.
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I went to a girls' school, and it was awful. The combination of my teenage anger and their jealousy meant I was always getting into fights. There was a lot of pulling of hair and scratching of faces and rolling around on the floor.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
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I'd say when it comes to being who you are, just don't be afraid to try things.
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It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.
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It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.
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While watching him work on the set of the film based on my life - Patch Adams - I saw that whenever there was a stressful moment, Robin would tap into his improvisation style to lighten the mood of cast and crew.
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By 1951, television had already made such inroads on the income garnered by motion picture companies that the Golden Era which had prevailed until then was beginning to disintegrate. And by 1953, it had come to an end. Hollywood was a dismal, tragic place.
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President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident.
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We have a right to expect that the Negro community will be responsible, will uphold the law, but they have a right to expect that the law will be fair, that the Constitution will be color blind, as Justice Harlan said at the turn of the century.
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I was so sensitive and touchy in a way that my character would never be. I was so protective and defensive of young girls, and sex in general.
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It is not the armed forces which can protect our democracy. It is the moral strength of democracy which alone can give any meaning to the efforts at military security.
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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.