Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.
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Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?
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I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.
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There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But how can there be any other issue in the face of death, possible extinction?
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I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.
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I go out, but not too much. When I'm on tour, I just write a lot of music and sleep.
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I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record.
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I always loved the bad girls in the movies. I loved Bette Davis; I loved Katherine Hepburn. I loved Ava Gardner.
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I thought that maybe it is not so much, as he seems to think, that the world loses interest in female performers after they hit a certain age, than the performers lose interest in the world.
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A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.
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I always have to just be myself. Anything else, I'm not happy, and it comes out musically.
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I don't want to write, I'd rather draw.
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Music was my one way to vent.
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And any man who knows a thing, knows he knows not a damn, damn thing at all...
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As you get older, you have to force yourself to have new dreams. For instance, I've been flying for 37 years, but now teaching others to fly is interesting for me. Sometimes you have to find new angles on life to keep you interested, like sharing successes and inspiring and helping others.
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When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.
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Every fellow is really two men -- what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.
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Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light.
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We always want to congratulate ourselves at having made more progress than we actually have.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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I did a 'Last Comic Standing' audition in 2006, where you're just performing for three people in a comedy club, in a big comedy club, and I remember them cutting me off, asking about my name in the middle of one of my jokes. Yeah, it's just real weird when you're doing stand-up in that type of sterile, unnatural setting.
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Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.
