Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Quotes to Explore
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Our party, I can tell you, is very transparent; we believe in our credentials. Our credentials are our only credibility; we are not going to compromise on that; we are the commoners.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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I would really love to collaborate with Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.; artists that kind of make sense with me vocally. And in terms of style, I'm a very visual artist. I really love Pharell. I love people that really care about drums, and I like beat-heavy.
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Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.
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Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
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In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.
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Education is neither eastern nor western.
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I started with the Target Company in 1993 when their Christmas theme that year was 'It's A Wonderful Life,' and they reunited the actors who played the Bailey kids. So we went all over and really had a blast getting the love from all of the fans and thought, 'Whoopty-doo, there's something going on here.'
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I grew up with parents who really encouraged me to listen to as much music as I could.
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'The Core knows what Teilhard de Chardin and other sentimentalists refused to acknowledge: evolution is not progress, that there is no ‘goal’ or direction to evolution. Evolution is change. Evolution ‘succeeds’ if that change best adapts some leaf or branch of its tree of life to conditions of the universe.
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I'd much rather dress like a 5 year old than a 21 year old. I'd much rather wear a puffy sleeved shirt than some low-cut top.
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To be clear, geoengineering won't solve global warming. It's not a 'techno-fix.' It would be enormously risky and almost certainly lead to troubling unforeseen consequences.
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Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get.
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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
