Barack Obama Quotes
There's one issue that will define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other, and that is the urgent and growing threat of a changing climate.
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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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I was so proud when I was commissioned into the Army.
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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
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We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.
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We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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Your man Daddy Yankee, some black and white people who know what's going on in the 'hood and the clubs are supporting him and loving him. But he's speaking Spanish, and he's speaking directly to the Latino people, and the people who know the language really dig it.
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For all of the continued awareness of systemic violence and oppression, there isn't a lot of talk about that psychological toll of racism, at least in white circles and white media.
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The interesting thing about blockchain is that it has made it possible for humanity to reach a consensus about a piece of data without having any authority to dictate it.
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Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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I don't have goals in life.
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Growing up the way I grew up, food was scarce. So when you had an opportunity to eat, you ate. When I graduated from high school and went to college, I weighed 160 pounds. So, I knew I had to put on the weight. I ate everything from fried food to fried chicken wings. When I came to Green Bay, I did the same thing because I was 172 pounds.
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Talking with local bowlers at that time, it was clear that the center had a promising future ? the town was growing and growing younger. Weeks later we were the new owners of the bowling alley.
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There is no doubt that the time to act is now. It is now that timely action can avert disaster. It is now that with foresight and will such action can be taken without disturbing the essence of our way of life, by adjusting behaviour not altering it entirely.
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Santa Cruz is blessed not only with natural wonders, but also with gifted souls who can fashion nature's bounty into man-made treasures.
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There's one issue that will define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other, and that is the urgent and growing threat of a changing climate.
