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• The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Legal
  • Southern

• I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Good
  • Family
  • Friends

• Hit songs are mysterious and slippery beasts; few artists have a lock on them. This means that many people, like me, have become fans of songs rather than fans of artists.

  

  Dan Hill
  • People
  • Fans
  • Songs

• Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Life
  • Important
  • Emotional

• Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Time
  • Work
  • Car

• I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Relationship
  • Judged

• Food-wise, oh man, I tend to really indulge on vacation because a lot of my friends are incredible chefs. One friend makes an eggplant parmesan that is heavenly and melts in your mouth, and another makes a chocolate pudding that I can't resist.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Friends
  • Man
  • Food

• To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • You
  • Win
  • Luck

• I love it when a guy compliments my vibe.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Love
  • Guy
  • I Love

• Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Strong
  • Failure
  • Motivational

• Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • People
  • Love
  • Offer

• The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Money
  • Art
  • War

• I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • School
  • Loved
  • Classmates

• Our earliest evidence of government, in the ruins of Babylon and Egypt, shows nothing but ziggurats and pyramids of wasted taxpayer money, the TARP funds and shovel-ready stimulus programs of their day.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Money
  • Day
  • Government

• Sometimes I can see the whole painting from the outset in my mind's eye. But more often than not, that idea doesn't last the duration of the painting. Sometimes it comes out easy, just as I had envisaged. But that is reasonably rare.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Mind
  • Eye
  • Painting

• Years are not important, my dear.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Important
  • Years
  • Dear

• To be honest, I would never have imagined myself acting on a sitcom that I didn't write.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Myself
  • Acting
  • Write

• When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Issues
  • Had
  • Teens

• It seems that's where Bill Clinton came in last night because he told this long story about how they met with Hillary Clinton, how he courted her, how he bought a house to convince her, I think after the third proposal, to actually marry him. And he talked about her activism and her commitment and everything. And it was as if he could tell the narrative in a way that she couldn't.

  

  Terry Gross
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • House

• If the entire world decided to become vegan tomorrow, a whole host of the world's problems would disappear overnight. Climate change would decrease by 25 percent, deforestation would cease, rainforests would be preserved, our water- and air-quality would increase, life-expectancy rates would increase, and our rates of cancer would plummet, so certainly, with that one action of becoming vegan you are quite effectively making the world a better place.

  

  Moby
  • Cancer
  • Tomorrow
  • Would

• You don't need a wishbone, you need a backbone.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Needs
  • Backbone

• This really all comes down to the basic theme of content sharing. We realize that this is a really important scenario, and that's why we're making the move to default XML formats that are fully documented.

  

  Brian Jones The Rolling Stones
  • Content
  • Sharing
  • Basic

• I thought The Visitation was good fun. We did some of that filming at Ealing on the big set.

  

  Sarah Sutton
  • Fun
  • VIsitation

• Be content with an ordinary life.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Content
  • Ordinary Life