Barack Obama Quotes
At a DNC fundraiser in Florida, as quoted in 'Obama condemns violence at Trump rally' by Evelyn Rupert, The Hill (3 June 2016)
Barack Obama
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If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it.
Rachel Dratch
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
Gabrielle Giffords
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
Becki Newton
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
Samuel Beckett
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I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
Oprah Winfrey
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Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.
Owen Chamberlain
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A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
Walter Scott
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It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
Olafur Eliasson
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Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
Harold Pinter
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'Twilight' fans are different. They're very civil with one another. It's a respect because they're all in this together and they all appreciate the same things.
Rami Malek
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However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.
Hans Kung
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I wrote 'Fight Song' as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what you are taught to believe in Girl Scouts. Building confidence. Building character. And above all else, being there for each other as a community.
Rachel Platten
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I think music is another language.
Dar Williams
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We think of it as a sort of traffic accident of the heart. It is an emotion that scares us more than cruelty, more than violence, more than hatred. We allow ourselves to be foiled by the vagueness of the word. After all, love requires the utmost vulnerability. We equip someone with freshly sharpened knives; strip naked; then invite him to stand close. What could be scarier?
Diane Ackerman
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Economic gains on their own, without a vision for society to accompany them, will result in a squandered prosperity that will ultimately be unsustainable.
Leo Varadkar
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Like so many other kids with special needs, I have been bullied. Kids in elementary school made me eat sand, and those same boys would walk behind me, teasing me. Finally I had enough, and I told them to grow up.
Lauren Potter
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We need to keep this Labour government, it has a good chance of another term.
Clare Short
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At a DNC fundraiser in Florida, as quoted in 'Obama condemns violence at Trump rally' by Evelyn Rupert, The Hill (3 June 2016)
Barack Obama
