Barack Obama Quotes
I do think that all politicians today have to be more attentive to people wanting to be heard, wanting to have more control over their lives.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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I did two or three plays every summer.
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
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Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
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I would quite like to play a big concert as Freddie Mercury. I can't sing that great and I haven't yet found a use for the over large size of my teeth. I quite fancy a mustache like that and he was such a great showman.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering, speaking back to his poems in ways that I had not before.
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O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.
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I went to live in Barcelona in 1975, when I was twenty. Even before I went there, I knew more about the Spanish Civil War than I did about the Irish Civil War. I liked Barcelona, and then I grew to like a place in the Catalan Pyrenees called the Pillars, especially an area between the village of Flavors and the high mountains around it.
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I don't live in this soul music bubble. I love Young Thug, Drake, Kendrick Lamar. I even heard that Kendrick was a fan of my music. Hopefully there's a door open for us to do music together. He's one of my favorite artists. I love Jazmine Sullivan, Lianne la Havas, Usher, Ginuwine. It goes further than classic soul.
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I grew up in a crazy, gypsy-like household of actors, dancers and loony Broadway people. It was their way of life, and I didn't know anything else.
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I'm not a highly outgoing person. I'm pretty guarded when you first meet me. But being in a Speedo for my entire life growing up, because I was a swimmer, and being naked in front of people now, doesn't really bother me.
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I do think that all politicians today have to be more attentive to people wanting to be heard, wanting to have more control over their lives.
