Abraham Lincoln Quotes
The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.
Quotes to Explore
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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It's always an honor to represent your country.
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It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
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I think any time you have a super team, whether it's all men or all women or both, what you have are people with very unique strengths that aren't always totally compatible.
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I am surrounded by great people.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.
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We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
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I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
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I used to have 20/20 vision, believe it or not; that's gone because of all the reading I did when I wasn't supposed to, reading in the back of a car, waiting for each street light to go past so I could grab another sentence.
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I can trust in Jesus. And this Gospel that we preach does work. So those who are hurting and suffering today, hang in there. The sun will shine again.
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Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.
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It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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They can hop on a line and really dice it up out there.
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.
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It definitely sharpened my interest in language, the way people used language, slang words, speech patterns. There's a big advantage to being the outsider.
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When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.
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Out of love, women become entirely what it is that they are in the imaginations of the men who love them.
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Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
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Parents, teachers, and other school staff need the tools to help these young people early in their lives. And the earlier, the better. It is proven that early action prevents problems later in life.
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The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.
