Barack Obama Quotes

ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple. And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way.

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I get nervous before openings or premieres or when someone's reading a new script, and I get nervous when my daughter isn't in my immediate field of vision.
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With 'Mask,' 'Smooth Talk' and 'Blue Velvet,' I loved the specific experiences so much. Each one was a specific filmmaker with a specific vision.
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I have been fighting climate change for two decades, and people often ask me how I remain hopeful in the face of extreme weather and grim forecasts. The answer is simple: I see countless solutions spreading across the nation and across the world. But we need more investment.
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What is Oracle? It's people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help find those people, to help grow those people.
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A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.
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I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.
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When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
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I feel like I've got a pretty good presence online through Instagram and Facebook. I just keep it simple.
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We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
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On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
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When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.
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From my very first day in the Mayor's office, I have worked closely with the Council members who share our vision of a city hall that really protects taxpayers and cares... yes... about the little things that make a big difference in people's lives.
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Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.
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I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
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The simple truth is, the short-term solution is for the FDA to allow more importation of safe vaccines from other nations. But the long-term solution is to get more vaccine production within the U.S.
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We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.
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I do think that there is a hunger in the land for a vision of confessional Christianity that is robust, God-centered, tough-minded, able to address today and tomorrow and the next day, and comprehensive.
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For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.
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We show that some known classical results have particularly simple derivations within the Ashtekar formalism. These include Witten's positive energy theorem...
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Any work of art makes one very simple demand on anyone who genuinely wants to get in touch with it. And that is to stop. You've got to stop what you're doing, what you're thinking, and what you're expecting and just be there for the poem for however long it takes.
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Someone who does not draw strength from himself and who is incapable of finding the meaning of his life within himself will...seek the map to his own orientation somewhere outside himself-in some ideology, organization, or society, and then, however active he may appear to be, he is merely waiting, depending. He waits to see what others will do, or what roles they will assign to him, and he depends on them-and if they don't do anything or if they botch things, he succumbs to disillusion, despair, and ultimately, resignation.
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All Russia is our orchard.
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I was promoted associate professor in early 1970 and full professor in October of the same year. I spent the two spring semesters of 1972 and 1974 as visiting professor at Harvard University, giving lectures and directing a research project.
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ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple. And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way.