Abraham Lincoln Quotes

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
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I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.
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The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
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I like to spoof the original Gothic classics, so there is also good dose of comedy in the 'Parasol Protectorate' - giggling readers are good.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
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He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.
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I wish I could sit back and say, 'Oh, I'm gonna wait for a Merchant-Ivory film to come my way. Or Ivory-Merchant. Whatever it's called. But you just take what's given and then, hopefully, down the road you can be more choosy and only do, say, Wayans brothers movies. That's my goal: to be more Merchant-Ivory-Wayans.
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I shot 'Girl' about three weeks after I finished 'The Magnificent Seven.'
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Responding to terrorism inevitably implies military consequences. This may shock some people, but these groups must also be dealt with on a military footing. I won't use the word 'combat' to avoid being painted as a crusader.
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Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic 'family' in the world outside.
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I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.
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I have never pressurized a producer to do me any favor.
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What women want is what men want. They want respect.
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Fear is the result of a lack of confidence. A lack of confidence is the result of not knowing what you can do. A lack of knowing what you can do is caused by a lack of experience. A lack of experience is caused by a lack of doing something new.
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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.