Barack Obama Quotes
Someday, our children, and our children’s children, will look at us in the eye and they'll ask us, did we do all that we could when we had the chance to deal with this problem and leave them a cleaner, safer, more stable world?
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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I kind of have my little OCD wood shed at my house where everything is just right when I go write.
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Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
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Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
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If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.
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If there is something that strikes me as interesting or beautiful or something I could learn from, and I don't write it down, then I could be at lunch with you, and it's like there's a pile of laundry in my brain that I haven't put away, and I struggle to really listen, so that's always been important to me.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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In order to figure this artmaking stuff out, it's trial and error and experimentation, and takes some time and hard thinking. Putting work out in many forms and stages is an extension of how I see things. I feel the art process is best served when it invites comments and constructive criticism from people.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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I don't care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.
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Part of my growth as a producer was not just about making beats but also helping in the process of inspiring the song and making the song the center.
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As the world leads we follow.
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Someday, our children, and our children’s children, will look at us in the eye and they'll ask us, did we do all that we could when we had the chance to deal with this problem and leave them a cleaner, safer, more stable world?
