Abraham Lincoln Quotes
War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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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 don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.
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Although it is true that Hizballah is organized, inspired, financed, and armed by Iran, its main bases in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley are under Syrian military control.
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I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I've since worked with lots of male directors that I love, so I no longer see the distinction gender-wise.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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My job is to help more people have jobs.
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Whatever road you've been given, enjoy that road.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible.
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I became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier to do in a large role than in a supporting role to a male protagonist. In general, the women in a supporting role to a male protagonist - cry a lot.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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Nothing I'm doing is without its predecessors.
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I am happiest when I am working though, when I am being creative. I realized at a very young age what I loved doing. I think it is so important for people to pursue the things that they love and not give up on their dreams.
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I've played a lot of bad guys, and I'm pretty good at leaving my work at the office. And I look at acting as having a certain sort of therapeutic nature to it.
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War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.
