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I am asked often about Abraham Lincoln's mistakes and faults; he certainly made some mistakes. I have chapter in President Lincoln about the Powhatan affair that was a royal screw-up in the early days - right alongside the Sumter affair. Lincoln signed letters he should not signed, and the ship was sent to two places at one under two captains etc. Fortunately, no great harm. Lincoln took the blame and did not do anything like that again.

I am often asked at what point in my love affair with films I began to want to be a director or a critic. Truthfully, I don't know. All I know is that I wanted to get closer and closer to films.

I am simply not interested in the pots and pans affair, and neither can I bring myself to be interested in the same. I have such great cooks in the family that I would rather manage the other affairs and leave the kitchen to those who know it best.

I am teaching... This year it's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros.

I applied for three jobs in record companies and was offered all of them. I took the most glamorous-sounding job in the promotions department and it began my love affair with the music industry.

I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for.

I believe it is both unwise and even wrong to interfere in the affairs of other nations. Indeed, if we are honest, we will see that this is one of the reasons for 9-11.

Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it.

I can’t imagine a passionate affair with a native man

I don't do too many jokes about current affairs, because almost every comedian always does that.

I distrust all dead and mechanical formulas for expressing anything connected with human affairs and human personalities. Putting human affairs in exact formulas shows in itself a lack of the sense of humor and therefore a lack of wisdom.

I don't care about Clinton's haircuts or his affairs or any of that stuff.

I don't feel I'm angry. I feel as though I'm describing something true. If I had stabbed my husband, I could understand being called "angry." If I had an affair with my husband's best friend and written about that experience, I could see the anger. But I'm not doing that.

I don't have a life where it's galas, posh affairs. It's me, my dog and a sofa. And a TV.

I don't have a fear and urgency feeling inside myself about the state of the world affairs and everything collapsing.This is quotes copyright © By Pumpkin Limited

If it were not for my firm belief in an overruling Providence, it would be difficult for me, in the midst of such complications of affairs, to keep my reason on its seat. But I am confident that the Almighty has His plans, and will work them out; and, whether we see it or not, they will be the best for us.

I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.

If Lincoln had an affair with a slave woman, it would be an outrage, but when Clinton does it with one of his staff, everyone is okay with it.

If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as well as voting power in Congress.

I fully, fully concede that Secretary Hillary Clinton, who was secretary of State for four years, has more experience - hat is not arguable - in foreign affairs.

If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present.

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair... or go into business. You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

I had a fiery affair with George Harrison's wife, Pattie Boyd.

If you bring a friend into your love affair, that's the end of your sweetheart that's the end of your friend, that's when your heartache begins.

If you know with a complete absence of doubt that what you are doing is consistent with your own purpose and that you are involved in accomplishing a great affair, then you are at peace with yourself and in harmony with your own heroic mission.

I had had an affair with the moon, in which there was neither sin nor shame.

I had always assumed that people were interested in economic affairs, just as I was. My assumption was justified. The times caught up with me. I was ready. I was there.

I had started my love affair with Wimbledon.

I had very deep concerns about my financial status because I found that up until "Let's Dance" I was virtually broke again. I had been so irresponsible in how I dealt with my financial affairs. I take full responsibility for that.

i have come to terms with my life, and that is my affair - i am not cold, i swear, but i have decided certain things, it is best for me to ignore emotion; i have not been happy dealing with it.

I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to see me. It's a privilege for me to see them.

I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice.

I have been placed under surveillance, and I can't take a step without it being known to the Polish minister of internal affairs.

I have a huge relationship with Brazil; it's almost a love affair, I would say. And to me, to introduce that specific martial art like capoeira in Hollywood movies was something important to me.

I have certainly had my share of long-distance love affairs.

I have decided to end my participation in public affairs and to resign my role as premier of Quebec.

I have often heard it said that the United States is isolated and is not interested in European affairs. I assure you that this is not the case.

I have long believed that women should play a much bigger part in our affairs.

I have never had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky. I've never had an affair with her.

I have had affairs that lasted decades and others that lasted for hours. I have loved princesses and peasants. And I suppose they loved me, each in their way.

I knew at that young age that going to the Bureau of Indian Affairs was useless, absolutely useless. I grew up having no faith in the bureaucracy of government.

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

I have to make this love affair believable enough. It's very European.

I know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extra-marital affairs.

I know I will never have an affair with a married man again.

I know Raft did have some genuine affairs with actresses.

I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.

I’m going to untangle her deadly scheme, even if it leaves my love affair hanging by a thread.