Barack Obama Quotes
There may be no greater tribute to Steve Jobs' success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
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Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
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Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.
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I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a close relationship with the leaders of our choir. We were recording when I was 15, so it wasn't like I had to wait until 25 to find out certain things.
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I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
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I am lactose intolerant, and I always thought it was really funny how people who are lactose intolerant continue to eat dairy, because they like it so much. And I find it not acceptable.
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To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.
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In Arab Islamic society, it is traditionally taboo to criticize the lifestyle or personal philosophy of any practicing Muslim.
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It's not up to me to list, like a grocer, my achievements in the government and the Knesset.
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The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice.
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Every comic went through their Mitch Hedberg phase - the glasses, the hair in the face - and you knew immediately when they were doing it.
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I don't think human beings have changed in 2,000 years.
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The most terrifying thing in the world was having to give a speech at my girlfriend's wedding. I was physically shaking and sweating the entire time.
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For if the Germans do not help defend the West, American and Canadian troops must cross the seas to do the job, and I venture to believe that the troops - if not the statesmen - regard this as an interference at least in their own domestic affairs.
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There may be no greater tribute to Steve Jobs' success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.
