Barack Obama Quotes
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
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Love is more than one thing.
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If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.
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I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
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I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that.
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Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.
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My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money, and by 10 I was paying more tax than the parents of other pupils. I feel a lot older than my years. Because I was working with adults, I had to mature a lot quicker.
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After 9/11, I changed a lot of the ways I viewed the world. I realized my comedy and my politics and my view of the world did not match. I had to start writing from my heart.
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
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During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.
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I often find myself writing about people taking care of each other, or trying to.
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She looked as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth - or anywhere else.
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When Frank Broyles coached at Arkansas, he used to have a golf tournament each year for all the Southwest Conference coaches.
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We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.
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Growing up, it was uncool to admit that your family had any money. And then, instantly, money was cool. In Reagan's parlance, it was about freedom of the individual, which was freedom to be greedy... individual versus society. There was a weird seduction in that, which I still feel.
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If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
