Samuel Barnett Quotes
I feel like I've gotten more than a lot of people will ever get. I feel very fortunate.
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My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.
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When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.
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Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
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I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.
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It's one thing to live my own life and know that I'm O.K. But there's another thing I want to take on, and that is letting people know that they're O.K., too.
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The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else.
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The Midwest breeds funny, eccentric people, to varying degrees. You play shows not because you're expecting to get a record deal, but to do something fun outside of mowing lawns. Everything else is just gravy... Or mustard.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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I always joke with people that having nephews is the best birth control there is.
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When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.' But, you know, most people don't speak out because they are frightened.
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America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.
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The Bahraini people are eager to obtain facts to enable them to shape a comprehensive national opinion without division among its people. We confirm to all journalists and media personnel in the kingdom of Bahrain that their freedom is preserved and their rights are safeguarded.
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I feel comfortable with the ball in my hands.
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If Muslims curse the Christians, then the Christians will curse the Muslims. And people will curse Allah, and Allah will hold us responsible for that.
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All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.
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A first difficulty of the Arab movement was to say who the Arabs were. Being a manufactured people, their name had been changing in sense slowly year by year. Once it meant an Arabian. There was a country called Arabia; but this was nothing to the point.
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People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.
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I think there are some people who are just kind of born to create drama and then capitalise on it.
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If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.
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I actually feel like I have developed friendships through Twitter, people that I've worked with I can kind of keep up with them. I've totally turned a corner. I get it. And Instagram.
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I know that there'll be a continuation of making the world more accessible for people with disabilities.
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Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the pain and sorrow and upset of the family members who lost loved ones that day at the hands of radical Muslim extremists. And their sensitivities and concerns have to be taken into account.
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You never know which Elle you're going to see day to day, because I wake up in different moods.
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I feel like I've gotten more than a lot of people will ever get. I feel very fortunate.
