Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I was raised to farm work, which I continued till I was twenty-two. At twenty-one I came to Illinois, Macon County. Then I got to New Salem, at that time in Sangamon, now in Menard County, where I remained a year as a sort of clerk in a store.
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The Heat gave me an opportunity when nobody else wanted to.
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I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.
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I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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Discipline is not a nasty word.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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I don't know how many kids I am going to have, but definitely I am one of those women who wants to have family and kids.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.
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Nobody is impervious to misfortune.
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You always hear about delegation, but people make the mistake of delegating and not following up. I give authority, but I stay in touch. Otherwise it doesn't work.
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But because our organization has grown so much and in so many different ways, the delegation process places responsibility and authority on the shoulders of people you can watch grow and watch the way they treat others.
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I have changed the style of functioning of the government and administration and managed to change the perception.
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Olympic champions should be 100 per cent athletes who have made the sacrifices.
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I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.
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I got intrigued by working in small theatres.
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I did the Kannada film when just out of school. I didn't know anything about the South Indian film industry at that time, and I did the film to earn some pocket money. I realised then I like acting.
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I was raised to farm work, which I continued till I was twenty-two. At twenty-one I came to Illinois, Macon County. Then I got to New Salem, at that time in Sangamon, now in Menard County, where I remained a year as a sort of clerk in a store.
