Abraham Lincoln Quotes

I shall always think of myself first and foremost... as a hunter.

Abraham Lincoln

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• The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Cool
  • Happen
  • Most

• I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Comedy

• Generally, what adults want to know is my background, why I write what I write, and very personal insights that some say are inspiring.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Why
  • Want
  • Know

• I never had only one job. I was either playing ball or writing or doing TV or modeling.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Modeling

• It seems to me that 'women's writing' by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing that sought to express a distinction, not deny it.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • World
  • Writing
  • Women

• I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Hate
  • Doing
  • Just

• There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Thinking
  • Democracy
  • Idea

• It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Good
  • Power
  • Game

• When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Children

• I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Business
  • Enjoy

• It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Possible
  • Prefer
  • Blondes

• There's no business like show business.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • Business
  • Show Business

• Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Time
  • World
  • Party

• I guess I don't believe that death is the end.

  

  Pam Dawber
  • Believe
  • Death
  • End

• The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • King
  • Grief
  • Queen

• George W. Bush is long gone, and with him the idea that 'Israel can do no wrong.'

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Long
  • Idea
  • Israel

• He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Honor
  • Dangerous
  • Himself

• I don't have kids, but I know that you want them to follow their dreams, while at the same time, you don't want them to be sitting around, hoping that dream is just going to come. I'm sure that's hard to tell your kids.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Dream

• The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.

  

  Nancy Allen
  • God
  • Love
  • Funny

• I think almost every political leader is always told that the next speech they make is the most crucial one.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Think
  • Political
  • Leader

• You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Country
  • You
  • Feelings

• When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Up
  • Think
  • Want

• We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Always
  • Little
  • Where

• I shall always think of myself first and foremost... as a hunter.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Think
  • Always
  • Hunter