Barack Obama Quotes
I think the American people recognize that the world has shrunk. That it's interconnected. That you're not going to put that genie back in the bottle.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.
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The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.
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If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
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When I was a kid, 'Blade Runner' was my favorite movie. I remember seeing that when I was a little boy with my dad.
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When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can't really say that one experience is greater than another, because all of your experiences take you through life on this journey.
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Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.
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Like every girl, we don't talk about our surgeries.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
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I'm skilled in the Twitter and Instagram sense of the social media verse.
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Spleen can subsist on any kind of food.
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I think one of the reasons that we are able to actually keep making music that we want to make, and that we're inspired by, is because there is a certain amount of instability constantly, and I think that mirrors the instability of any given life.
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I never have planned a whole lot of future. It's one day at a time.
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Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
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The way to Heaven is straight and narrow: they who wish to arrive at that place of bliss by walking in the paths of pleasure shall be disappointed; and therefore few reach it, because few are willing to use violence to themselves in resisting temptations.
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I think the American people recognize that the world has shrunk. That it's interconnected. That you're not going to put that genie back in the bottle.
