Barack Obama Quotes
There's so much active misinformation and it's packaged very well and it looks the same when you see it on a Facebook page or you turn on your television. If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made, then we won't know what to protect.
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I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it at the same time because I can read a book in a day.
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When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.
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I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.
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I hate touchy-feely things.
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If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.
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The longer I look at something, the more my imagination churns and I can find somewhere to put it.
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Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is why we see in the increasing complexity of our mental constructs a means for greater understanding, even while intuitively we know that we shall never be able to fathom the imponderables that govern our course through life.
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A four-hundred-dollar suit on him would look like socks on a rooster.
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There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.
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Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.
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I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.
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There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.
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As I reflect back on what's worked for me in this [presidential] office it's been that I've gotten people who maybe didn't believe in the process to get engaged. Ironically, I've even gotten the other side that maybe didn't believe in the process to get engaged.
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A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.
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One can buy anything with money except morality.
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The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.
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All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.
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I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.
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I don’t believe, however, that every fiction we orchestrate is good. I cling to those that are painful, those that arise from a profound crisis of all our illusions. I love unreal things when they show signs of firsthand knowledge of the terror, and hence an awareness that they are unreal, that they will not hold up for long against the collisions. Human beings are extremely violent animals, and the violence they are always ready to use in order to impose their own eternal, salvific life vest, while shattering those of others, is frightening.
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There's so much active misinformation and it's packaged very well and it looks the same when you see it on a Facebook page or you turn on your television. If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made, then we won't know what to protect.
