Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.
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If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.
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No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.
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The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
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This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
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Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.
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The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.
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I need to end up with someone who is strong, intelligent, independent, someone I really admire - sensitive, sensuous, warm, a sense of humor.
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Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.
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I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
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Eventually it comes to you: the thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
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Why can't there be a lot of great women who are doing great things?
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It happens a little bit more in the West, where there's more fluid - where everybody's originally from somewhere else. So they have a little bit more permission to do it. It happens the least, at the individual level at least, in the South, because the South has very strong, you know, set up black churches and white churches and a long history of that, and so it's a bigger social cost.
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News writes history from the perspective of politicians. Film writes history from the perspective of the people.
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History is not history unless it is the truth.
