Barack Obama Quotes
I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade.
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'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.
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Most of the time, those who use animals in experiments justify that use by pointing to alleged benefits to human and animal health and the supposed necessity of using animals to obtain those benefits.
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We want to encourage people to talk to one another.
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Of course I want to look well and fit - and as an athlete, I want to look strong.
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It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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I realized, 'Oh, it's easier to get what I want if I embrace the sex symbol thing.' Microphones are more in my face, and I can say things about the kids that I mentor and open more access to more doors.
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The worst thing would be for a Canada to develop a Hollywood. This is an industry we are going to have to fight to defend. We have to compete now so productions stay here. We don't want entertainment to be like the steel industry.
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The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
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I'm the youngest of five girls, and I don't know about you, but it's really hard to be heard when you have five women. I've always been this loud and over the top as a person because I just want to be heard.
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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
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Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
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I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.
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The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.
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I love to eat a lot, but I try to eat healthy stuff. Especially when you're riding, sometimes I get hooked up with the cycling and when you're riding three, four, five hours, then you can put whatever you want in your body.
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If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
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I want a brood, you know. I'd like to have a little soccer team and a minivan and all that stuff.
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You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket.
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You take an educated gamble. If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you're not doing your job.
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The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator, have been crushed in silence and secrecy by his own severe criticism and adverse examination!
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I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.
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Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.
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I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade.
