Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.
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I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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I try to play like I did when I was a young boy playing in my garden. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's not so good, but I try to always make sure I give my best to help the team, even if I am not having the best game myself.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.
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I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.
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I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
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Visually, a lot of the electronic artists have really interesting video and interesting things like that.
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When I was nine, we moved to Stanford University in San Francisco so that my father could do a Ph.D. I went to Terman Junior High in Palo Alto. It was terrible, because my hormones were all over the place, and I became an ugly adolescent full of rage and loathing.
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You search for images and stories and movies and music from people that look like you and sound like you and speak like you because you want to feel like, 'Oh, if they can do it, so can I.' There's a little bit of that need for validation, especially when you're younger and trying to look to someone to look up to.
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In fifth grade, we had to write a story and read it in front of the class. When I read mine out, the class were just belly laughing. And I remember being like, 'This is the coolest!' So I want to dedicate my life to trying to make people laugh. I can't imagine doing anything else.
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Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.
