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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I love to smell like roses, literally all day!
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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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.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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I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
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In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.
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I am honest; I speak the truth, and I sometimes probably go overboard and speak my mind.
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It's hard, because when you talk about process or your characters ruling your narrative, it sounds like you have no control, but obviously you're ultimately the author, so you do have control.
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We'll be going to the fish market and a farmer's market this afternoon to get what we need to make and eat dinner as a family. I'm trying to expose my kids to going to a farmers market or the fish market and learning what that's all about.
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With the American failure came world failure.
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People always ask: For whom does the poet write? He needs only to answer, For whom do you do good? Are you kind to your daughter because in the end someone will pay you for being?... The poet writes his poem for its own sake, for the sake of that order of things in which the poem takes the place that has awaited it.
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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
