Barack Obama Quotes
Mandela demonstrated that action and ideas are not enough. No matter how right, they must be chiseled into law and institutions.
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Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
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Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't.
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Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
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The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.
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Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.
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I've met Michael Keaton, John Favreau, Marisa Tomei - they're all really amazing people and really, really professional. I've learned so much from just watching them operate on set.
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Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation.
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As president, I have the right to call a referendum based on a law that the Catalan parliament has approved.
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The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore.
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The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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One with the law is a majority.
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Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.
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I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy.
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Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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I would like to see people dreaming of striking out on their own into some other country or their own, wherever they feel the action is, in the hope of an exciting and rewarding career.
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My father-in-law just happens to be a global procurement guru. Now retired, he was the global head of procurement for some of the biggest companies in the world as well as our very own treasury.
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At the risk of sounding really corny now, I'm a career prosecutor. I've been doing this for a very long time. And I believe in holding people responsible when they violate the law. But our sole responsibility is to seek justice. And sometimes that means a very lengthy sentence for people who are dangerous and from which society must be protected.
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The stronger an agent’s motivation to A is, in comparison to the agent’s motivation for alternative courses of action, the more likely the agent is to A, other things being equal.
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The market didn't define the music; the music defined the market.
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Institutions are what allow us to have continuity in civilizations.
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In today's materialistic world there is a risk of people becoming slaves to money, as though they were simply cogs in a huge money-making machine. This does nothing for human dignity, freedom, and genuine well-being. Wealth should serve humanity, and not the other way around.
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Comedians talk to other comedians the way jazz musicians can talk to each other.
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Mandela demonstrated that action and ideas are not enough. No matter how right, they must be chiseled into law and institutions.
