Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this question (slavery). They have constantly brought forward small cures for great sores-plasters too small to cover the wound. That is one reason that all settlements have proved so temporary-so evanescent.
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
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America did not invade Iraq because Iraqis are Muslims. Oil, money, economic interests. Who knows? But it was not because Iraqis are Muslims.
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.
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I'm a visual thinker, thrill seeker, and I'm easily distracted. I see everything I'm writing, and I think it naturally affects the pace of things.
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I've actually thought very little about solo work up until just very recently.
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You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.
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Science is a method, not a religion, yet it can be just as close-minded. Open minds here Claire. Always open minds. Question everything, accept nothing as fact until you prove it for yourself.
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I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books. I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me. My story is not a pleasant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented stories are; it has the taste of nonsense and chaos, of madness and dreams -- like the lives of all men who stop deceiving themselves.
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I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this question (slavery). They have constantly brought forward small cures for great sores-plasters too small to cover the wound. That is one reason that all settlements have proved so temporary-so evanescent.
