Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
Quotes to Explore
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We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around.
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
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I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.
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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
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Time has changed and now is the age of spending.
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The tale of 'Point Break' is about doing what you love and committing to what you love. It's relevant to me as a Venezuelan, to you as an American, to any Chinese person watching the film.
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I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
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The most important thing is to enjoy yourself and have a good time.
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
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Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.
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Trevor Horn has worked with some of the biggest stars there is. And he was happy to do a record with me. He's worked with some amazing people, and then there's little old me walking in.
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I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.
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And we lost a lot because of that, and I think this is future gymnastics to separate ages. Because kids can do it more than adult. A woman and adult woman can show more than the small kids.
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Æschylus: High thoughts must have high language. (rewritten and embellished tr. Fitts 1955, p. 108)
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Some call me a Cuban hyphen American. I reject that. I don't believe in hyphenated Americans.
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There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.
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This fear of criticism displayed by the advocates of freedom of criticism cannot be attributed solely to craftiness. No, the majority of the Economists look with sincere resentment upon all theoretical controversies, factional disagreements, broad political questions, plans for organising revolutionaries, etc.
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Crowds speak in heroes.
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You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.
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Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature... The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
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I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
