Barack Obama Quotes
To look at the issue of life and abortion, actually we're moving in that direction where most Americans oppose most abortions.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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But I think we need the international market.
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I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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I'm afraid that the passage of time is mostly lost on me. If you were to open up my head you would see that I'm still brooding about statements, songs and issues from the third grade. The years between 1980 and today went by very, very quickly.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
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I don't move away from grief, rather through it.
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I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to practise Buddhism, which is a levelling experience for me, and there hasn't been a day I've missed in 40 years. I apply it to everything - to my work and relationships. I try to be a compassionate person.
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No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.
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I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.
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I have been fighting to protect women's healthcare and reproductive rights for decades.
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Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
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Life is a journey which is far more enjoyable when your holding hands with the ones you love
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I haven't made my point yet, which is that it is right to be kind and even sacrifice ourselves to people who need kindness and lie in our way - otherwise, besides failing to help them, we run into the aridity of self-development. To seek for recipients of one's goodness, to play the Potted Jesus leads to the contrary the Christian danger.
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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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I made 'Enemy' to prep myself for 'Prisoners.' I had the need to direct something smaller in English before going to Hollywood. That's the way I sold it to Warner because they asked me if I was berserk to make a movie right before.
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To look at the issue of life and abortion, actually we're moving in that direction where most Americans oppose most abortions.
