Boris Johnson Quotes
Obama's extraordinary political skills suggest he is more than capable of rising above any personal historical grudges he may have inherited.
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
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I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
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I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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I never was a very good singer.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be.
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I stopped watching horror movies after I watched 'Candyman' when I was – I don't know, fifteen or something. I remember my sister rented it, 'Candyman,' and it really, really scared me. And so it was only after I found myself in a horror film that I really went back and kind of rediscovered the genre.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
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I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.
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I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
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I'm not an extremely prolific writer. I don't write songs all the time.
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Movies, novels, TV shows - these are the water fountains of today. We thirst for stories which speak to us by representing us, but we go to the water fountains in the centre of town looking for that, and we're turned away, sent to the ghetto.
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From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.
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I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living.
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Happiness may be found only by helping others to find it.
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Obama's extraordinary political skills suggest he is more than capable of rising above any personal historical grudges he may have inherited.
