Barack Obama Quotes
Freedom is not an accident. Progress is not an accident. Democracy is not an accident. These are things that have to be fought for. You’re part of that legacy. They must be won. And they’ve got to be tended to constantly and defended without fail.Barack Obama
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Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
Hanna Rosin -
If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
Tamsin Greig -
I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
Rachel Platten -
Imagination rules the world.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I know that, as a comedian, I've made great strides because I've worked as hard as a person can work at being at least wildly amusing.
T. J. Miller
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I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.
Caitlyn Jenner -
My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
Patrick Schwarzenegger -
I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
Frances McDormand -
Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.
Ban Ki-moon -
The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.
Garet Garrett -
Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
Salman Rushdie
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The verdict of the world is conclusive.
Saint Augustine -
I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
Oprah Winfrey -
Facebook is made up of people you've met, but not necessarily who are similar to you. I have 850 'friends,' and a lot are acquaintances, not friends. I don't really know them. If I've met someone one time, how should they be influencing my feed?
Garrett Camp -
When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.
Taylor Dayne -
I don't worry about chemicals. There are enough chemicals entering my body through all the fizzy drinks I consume to worry if my lip balm is 100 per cent organic.
Edie Campbell -
A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.
Warren Spahn
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Seen from a monocultural perspective, manipulating objects is very, very clever. But seen from a multidimensional perspective, from a perspective of diversity, this is extremely crude because what we have lost out on is a cow that serves as a source of sustainable energy.
Vandana Shiva -
I think the past is not important. For every player, for every single player, the past stay there. If you did well in the past, OK.
Antonio Conte -
I'm not so naive that I didn't know or didn't suspect that, at some point, someone was going to say "You're writing about the occult." My wizarding world is a world of imagination. I think it is a moral world.
Joanne Rowling -
Democracy has to be judged not just by the institutions that formally exist but by the extent to which different voices from diverse sections of the people can actually be heard.
Amartya Sen -
I think about freedom and the urgency around our imagination. If you can't imagine it, you can't fight for it.
DeRay Mckesson -
Freedom is not an accident. Progress is not an accident. Democracy is not an accident. These are things that have to be fought for. You’re part of that legacy. They must be won. And they’ve got to be tended to constantly and defended without fail.
Barack Obama