Lyman Abbott Quotes
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.
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The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.
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I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.
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Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.
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There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.
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My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.
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I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
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Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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I know a lot of people who use the Internet really wisely. It enriches their lives in some way.
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Events tend to recur in cycles.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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I won't give the credit to 'good fortune.' Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion.
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The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
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I came from drama school, and it's a group of 18 people working together in every single production and splitting up the roles for three years, so I am very much about the team.
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I work for three or four hours a day, in the late morning and early afternoon. Then I go out for a walk and come back in time for a large gin and tonic.
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I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell.
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Any time you learn something new about your character, that's really exciting.
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To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike.
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My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area.
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Patience is passion tamed.
