Lincoln Steffens Quotes
Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal politics, whether for good or for evil, you can trace it almost invariably to one man. The people do not do it. Neither do the 'gangs,' 'combines,' or political parties.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
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We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.
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I know what poverty is.
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It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
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I want to be a major force.
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Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
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You've gotta believe in yourself, and you just have to work harder at it than you've ever worked at anything before in your life. And if you keep doing that and keep believing in yourself, great things do happen.
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The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.
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Perhaps the most difficult task for us to perform is to rely on God’s grace and God’s grace alone for our celebration. It is difficult for our pride to rest on grace. Grace is for other people—for beggars. We don’t want to live by a heavenly welfare system. We want to earn our own way and atone for our own sins. We like to think that we will go to heaven because we deserve to be there.
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Generally speaking, the more money that's involved in anything, the more people are expecting and hoping that it's not going to fail.
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Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
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A young Brit girl with no theatre experience decided to take on an iconic American role on Broadway. Maybe I should have thought that through?
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Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal politics, whether for good or for evil, you can trace it almost invariably to one man. The people do not do it. Neither do the 'gangs,' 'combines,' or political parties.
