Barack Obama Quotes
I hope you don’t listen to this. I hope you choose to broaden, and not contract, your ambit of concern.
Barack Obama
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
Edmund White
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A lot of people don't get second chances.
Tamar Braxton
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
Orson Scott Card
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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
Val Kilmer
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
Otto von Bismarck
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.
F. Sionil Jose
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One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.
Camille Paglia
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Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.
Jack Nicholson
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Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
Maeve Binchy
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To generate creative ideas, it's important to start from an unusual place. But to explain those ideas, they have to be connected to something familiar.
Adam Grant
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At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.
Ada Yonath
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I usually say the aim of life is to be happy. Our existence is based on hope. Our life is rooted in the opportunity to be happy, not necessarily wealthy, but happy within our own minds. If we only indulge in sensory pleasure, we'll be little different from animals. In fact, we have this marvellous brain and intelligence; we must learn to use it.
Dalai Lama
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Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured.
Emily Dickinson
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I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
Charles M. Schulz
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I think all artists are looking for a subject or are sometimes unsure of their subject, but immigrant artists bring another culture to that and they bring also the place where the original culture meets the new culture.
Edwidge Danticat
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If we don't be going strong, we're going weak, and we can't afford to go weak. We've got too many problems to do that.
Dr. John
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I hope you don’t listen to this. I hope you choose to broaden, and not contract, your ambit of concern.
Barack Obama
