Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Never stir up litigation, a worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this, who can be more nearly a fiend than he who habitually overhauls the register of deeds in search of defects in titles, whereon to stir up strife, and put money in his pocket?
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The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.
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In general, we are lazy as consumers and just want to label people as good guy, bad guy.
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I started making remixes for every specific girl I wanted to date. That's how I learned how to use Pro Tools, and then I started making my own music.
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When I get on the stage, I try to connect with the fans and offer them the best of the best. I want them to see it as a music journey.
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All I know is that my fans have been really wonderful and affectionate.
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Charlize Theron is perfect. She holds herself with so much poise and grace. I don't know if she looks so good because she has the best body or because she has the confidence to feel comfortable in what she's wearing.
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Becoming a parent gives you access to a whole world of feeling. It gives you a much stronger sense of life and death: becoming a father made me realise my own mortality.
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I definitely consider myself a Christian. There's things that I believe in, there's things I have a self-belief on. I know I got a great relationship with God and the universe. I just believe in being a righteous person and karma. Doing unto others as you would have done unto you. I really want to help teach that.
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I love Back Stage. I have lots of theater friends and actors who depend on Back Stage.
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I've always thought the Nat Turner story to be very interesting.
Colson Whitehead -
I'm obsessed with the thought of making things happen... Ultimately, I do it because I'm scared. I don't ever, ever, ever want to be poor again.
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If you say, 'I listen to pop,' you picture this kind of perfect, colorful, polished song. I want to have that, but when you open it, you see this gritty dark - kind of like dancing your tears away. Disguise the sadness in a pop beat.
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By the time you have your protagonist attempting to assassinate the Pope, you've sort of signaled that everything is on the table.
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I can't advocate people not liking each other. But... I'd prefer it.
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I grew up on the back of a motorcycle - my dad didn't have a car until I was a teenager.
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I'm definitely a narcissist, and TV is fabulous for narcissists.
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My mom had gotten a Super 8 camera to make home movies with, and my brother and me got our hands on it and ran with it.
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The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it.
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I think the more complex your idea of who someone is or who a particular group is, the less able you are to separate 'we' and 'outside' or 'us and them.' I think that that's something that we really, really need to pay attention to.
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The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don't flower...
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So on this windy sea of land, the Fiend Walked up and down alone bent on his prey.
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We've all been influenced by other people...If Minnie Riperton never existed, would I have even thought of singing in that upper register? I doubt it.
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Never stir up litigation, a worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this, who can be more nearly a fiend than he who habitually overhauls the register of deeds in search of defects in titles, whereon to stir up strife, and put money in his pocket?
