Barack Obama Quotes
In our democracy and our civic discourse, it seems as if folks who take religion the most seriously are sometimes also those who are suspicious of those not like them.Barack Obama
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Persistent inequality costs the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars a year, undermining our global competitiveness, our democracy, and our ideals as a nation.
Wendy Kopp -
I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.
Vaclav Klaus -
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken -
Sometimes you've got to know when it's time to leave the party.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
I sometimes read on the subway, but I'm a hopeless eavesdropper and get easily distracted by strangers' conversations.
J. Courtney Sullivan -
Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?
Tatyana Ali
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Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.
Kanye West -
When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed.
Felicity Kendal -
Democracy is the road to socialism.
Karl Marx -
I've gone back and forth with fine-tuning the kind of conditioning I'm doing. Sometimes trying to shed weight and getting leaner and sometimes trying to pack on a little more muscle.
J. K. Simmons -
As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally citizens around the flag, it can distract them from bleak economic times, and it can enrich a country's elites.
Samantha Power -
I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I have had to sacrifice something in order to have enough time with my orchestras.
Zubin Mehta
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For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.
Patricia Marx -
It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.
Oscar Robertson -
We have been deformed by educational and religious institutions that treat us as members of an audience instead of actors in a drama, so we become adults who treat democracy as a spectator sport.
Parker Palmer -
I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes.
Harold Budd -
The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.
Otto Hermann Kahn -
I believe, for a long time, protracted wars test the will of any democracy, to be sure, and people will underwrite a protracted war if they see some progress. But if they don't see progress, and it appears to be futile and useless, then that political support begins to evaporate rather quickly.
Jack Keane
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Sometimes people back themselves into corners where they think they have to make kind of an engraved-in-stone decision.
Emily Yoffe -
To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
Samuel Butler -
A novel is a big thing. It's difficult to hold the whole story in your mind, especially when you've finished a first draft and are still giddy from the flow of creative juices.
David Macinnis Gill -
Just because you become a mother, it doesn't mean you lose who you are.
Beyonce Destiny's Child -
In our democracy and our civic discourse, it seems as if folks who take religion the most seriously are sometimes also those who are suspicious of those not like them.
Barack Obama