Barack Obama Quotes
Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right here in Athens.
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I grew up on Avenue C, and Tompkins Square Park was my park. That was where I played ball every day. I lived in that park.
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I'm the lightest sleeper. I can hear a pin drop. It's been worse since I was ill. I think your inner ear is always half open, listening out for the faintest danger sign.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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I moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, but I constantly find myself walking around, like in the commercial, saying, 'Can you hear me now?'
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.
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I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in my school production.
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It wasn't my dream to make music. It was just something I ended up doing, and no one said stop.
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A free public broadcast license is a privilege.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.
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Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.
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I care about writing music and playing my music.
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Up to that time I never realized that I possessed any particular gift of discovery, but Lord Rayleigh, whom I always considered as an ideal man of science, had said so and if that was the case, I felt that I should concentrate on some big idea.
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You know, I have written about this and described it in many different settings, and I did misspeak the other day. This has been a very long campaign.
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Not just Mexico. Columbus should be the home of any big game. There's absolutely no doubt about that.To be able to play in front of a decidedly pro-American crowd for both Mexico games, and to win them both 2-0, is fantastic for everybody.
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Sometimes our greatest strengths are also our greatest weaknesses.
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Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right here in Athens.
