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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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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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
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I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.'
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Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer-and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
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How many thick black women are there singing whatever I'm singing, surrounded by rappers, but also from the suburbs? I can't really judge someone else for judging me!
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I basically look at PR as something you do if there's an object in mind. But my ego doesn't need it.
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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.
