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If we had been less reliant on technology and the security that we enjoy in being divorced from what we used to know, maybe things would have turned out differently. ↗

— Heather Donahue

#being #differently #divorced #enjoy #had

I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother. ↗

— Phil Donahue

#bear #celebrity #celebrity status #company #difficult

I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies. ↗

— Jodie Foster

#any #big #i #mainstream #movies

Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval. ↗

— Phil Donahue

#become #child #criticism #important #important tools

And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript. Though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that! ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#carefully #could #finally #good #helped

The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to spend on his private life, his inner life, and I thought this might be a way of getting at that. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#big #biography #career #getting #had

Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all is elected by a minority of the votes. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#first #first of all #i #kind #lincoln

Yes! thank God; human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty - it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ... There are few prophets in the world; few sublimely beautiful women; few heroes. I can't afford to give all my love and reverence to such rarities: I want a great deal of those feelings for my everyday fellow-men, especially for the few in the foreground of the great multitude, whose faces I know, whose hands I touch, for whom I have to make way with kindly courtesy. ↗

— George Eliot

#love #beauty

I think, with the gay liberation movement has had need for heroes and heroines, and it would be rather nice to have Abraham Lincoln as your poster boy, wouldn't it? ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#abraham lincoln #boy #gay #had #heroes

I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was going on around him. I felt the pressures that were on him. You can see what people were writing to him, how they were nudging him. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#about #acted #around #felt #going