Abraham Lincoln Quotes
My Dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully.
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If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.
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I am very proud of what we have built in Spain, because it is not a traditional Formula 1 country. I think we have found passionate fans, and built up a strong culture for the sport - and things are improving every day, with more and more people getting interested.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
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You've got to keep pushing, keep driving, because in this business, you're going to hear 'no' a lot more than you hear 'yes.'
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I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.
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The luxury of radio is that you don't spend hours in make-up, and you can wear whatever you want. It's bizarre. You'll be saying lines, with various people around making sound effect noises.
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I actually didn't really start to get into the research of film until I was much older. I decided I wanted to direct a lot earlier than I started to do the research, which is really strange, but it is the case.
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Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. But stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No. Never.
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Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.
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My whole life was geared toward being a highly educated person.
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The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
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I don't think it's a great leap to go from civil unions to gay marriage - I may be in the minority in believing that.
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And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.
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When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.
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The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
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I became the messenger who had to be killed.
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Uncertainty is not an indication of poor leadership; it underscores the need for leadership.
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As I grew older - collapsing into my seventies, glimpsing ahead the cliffs of the eighties, colliding into eighty-five - poetry abandoned me.
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In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.
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The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.
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My Dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully.
