Abraham Lincoln Quotes
In a great national crisis like ours unanimity of action among those seeking a common end is very desirable - almost indispensable. And yet no approach to such unanimity is attainable unless some deference shall be paid to the will of the majority simply because it is the will of the majority.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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A lot of these guys in 'Fight Master' will compete in Bellator and in mixed mart arts for quite some time.
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Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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Downloading songs is not good.
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It's nice to just embrace the natural beauty within you.
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It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
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I think that's a great opportunity, to pick a script where you can build up a good skill. I think the main thing I look for when I look at scripts is if it's inspirational. If it's something that teenagers can relate to. And is it something that the audience is going to get something out of. If not, then it's really not worth doing.
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There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
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I watch a lot of bad TV. I spend my entire day reading and writing, and after dinner my idea of fun is just to watch a lot of bad TV. That's how I relax and stay in touch with modern culture.
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Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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When I was younger, of course I had people act inappropriately to me. I've had certain directors yell at me. But I didn't stand for it, and I didn't let it go far enough for it to be in any way abusive to me.
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When politicians don black robes and seize powers they do not have, they should be called out for what they are - usurpers and petty tyrants.
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..I have never managed to grasp what exactly 'pataphysics' consisted of; but in short what I have always seen in it is a desire to disconnect philosophy from the discipline of logic, and to admit incoherence as a legitimate component of it. comment on visiting frequently the Collège de 'Pataphysique'
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The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.
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In a great national crisis like ours unanimity of action among those seeking a common end is very desirable - almost indispensable. And yet no approach to such unanimity is attainable unless some deference shall be paid to the will of the majority simply because it is the will of the majority.
