Barack Obama Quotes
In the end, no amount of American forces can solve the political differences that lie at the heart of somebody else's civil war.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
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Time Inc. has amazing titles - really great content.
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My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.
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There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company.
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I'm blonde and tanned and normal-sized! I'm sweet, shy, funny, have a big heart and I'm nice - and I like to eat.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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The U.N.'s humanitarian agencies rely on charitable donations from the public as well as the generosity of governments to continue their lifesaving work in response to natural disasters, armed conflicts and other emergencies.
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My life is my message.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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Under the deluge of minute-to-minute text conversations, emails, relentless exchange of media channels and passwords and apps and reminders and tweets and tags, we lose sight of what all this fuss is supposed to be about in the first place: ourselves.
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Sandoz turned and accepted the book, looking at the spine. "Aeschylus?" Wordlessly, Guiuliani pointed out the passage, and Emilio studied it a while, slowly translating the Greek in his mind. Finally, he said, " ' In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, againstour will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.' "
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You may study with the highest teachers, but you will find no one but yourself teaching you. You may travel the world over, yet find nothing but yourself, reflected the world over. So if you now find yourself in a cell, take heart that of all the teachers in the world, out of all the places in the world, you still have with you the only ultimate ingredient of your journey: yourself.
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To get home you had to end the war. To end the war was the reason you fought it. The only reason.
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As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
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In the end, no amount of American forces can solve the political differences that lie at the heart of somebody else's civil war.
