Bev Perdue Quotes
From education to broadband, from building roads and bridges to supporting the military, Barack Obama is delivering for North Carolina. And he is delivering for America. A growing middle class is the foundation for a strong America.
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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
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I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
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I'm not going to tell the Palestinians how to arrange themselves. If they want to have their own entity and their own parliament as they do today, that's fine. If they want to connect to Jordan, which has a very big Palestinian population, and vote in the Jordanian government, that's fine.
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When you look at the roles I've done and the roles coming up, they're all strong. I guess I'm more drawn to that than that kind of submissive role females can be categorised as.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
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You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.
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Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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My whole philosophy is to broadcast the way a fan would broadcast.
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I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.
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I wouldn't trade or change a thing, and I've had some hard times.
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The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.
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There are a lot of possibilities I'm looking at for the future, but I'm very insistent on not limiting myself.
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The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
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It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
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Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in.
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Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
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From education to broadband, from building roads and bridges to supporting the military, Barack Obama is delivering for North Carolina. And he is delivering for America. A growing middle class is the foundation for a strong America.
