Barack Obama Quotes
One thing I will not compromise over is whether or not Congress should pay the tab for a bill they've already racked up. If Congress refuses to give the United States the ability to pay its bills on time, the consequences for the entire global economy could be catastrophic.
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There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.
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I don't feel like an idol to anybody. I don't feel anybody should look up to me.
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Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.
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The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.
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The Saints are the elect children of the spouse of Christ, the precious fruit of her body; they are her crown of glory. And when these dear children quit her to reap their eternal reward, the mother retains precious memorials of them and holds up their example to her other children to encourage them to follow their glorious traces.
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I have a tough time with stand-up because I am an improviser. I can riff; I can do crowd work, so I don't prepare.
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That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist.
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Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism.
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The Laboratory for Radioactivity consisted of only two rooms at the time; at a later date, when tests of radioactive substances became more extensive, it expanded into four rooms.
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We don't have a jewellery background, so we just come up with these things that we wanna wear, that we wish were out there, you know?
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And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time.
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I've spent more time in hospitals than some fellows ever spend in church.
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When people say this isn't the America they grew up in, they're right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.
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It's funny because I grew up with the T.V. on 24 hours a day. And the more money I made, the more T.V.s we had.
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I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names.
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By the time I was 10, I had lived in 11 different countries.
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I meet blind and partially-sighted young readers all the time, and it's a shock that so few books are available to them.
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It would probably be better if I got involved in fewer things just because I'd have more time to write for my own purposes... But if somebody calls you up with a really cool project, it's hard to just say 'no' because you don't feel like working.
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We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess - their very lives.
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I always wear the shoes of the character a week before going on set; the idea of just putting on a new pair of shoes on the first day of filming is just horrific.
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To get even realer with you for a second, as a black actor, as a performer of color, I don't know how many more roles like Aaron Burr are gonna come along for me.
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One thing I will not compromise over is whether or not Congress should pay the tab for a bill they've already racked up. If Congress refuses to give the United States the ability to pay its bills on time, the consequences for the entire global economy could be catastrophic.
