Lincoln Steffens Quotes
My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.
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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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I've been very lucky.
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We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from. I had to study the stars and figure where everything was and how I got here and all of those things.
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My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel, who was my first real acting teacher. Joan was also good friends with my friend Susie Landau Finch, who had first encouraged me to consider acting, so that's how I began studying.
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I'm not really into weight training.
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I always like to write where I'm at in real life into whatever I'm working on.
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I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.
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I lost my mom to breast cancer, and then I lost my father three years later. I thought, 'What am I waiting for?' Motherhood has been the greatest gift of my life.
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When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.
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My father was ruined by hard drink - he sat on an icicle.
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My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.
