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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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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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 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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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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By the time I got to set for 'Cobra,' I think I'd lost about 28 pounds in about a month and a half. I didn't want to look back and be like, 'Wow, someone should stop eating PB and J's.' Like, if I'm going to look back when I'm 80, I wanted to be like, 'Wow, okay, I looked pretty fit. I used my youth right.'
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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
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I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
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The money was going to come and go, between a wife and the IRS. The thrill of beating the best field in golf is what will always stay with me.
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Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
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New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.
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That messed me up, growing up in the public eye when I was a teenager. That's when everyone is trying to find themselves.
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There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us - these are just the hazards of being free
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Modi government has not flouted any rule or regulation to help anyone.
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In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else's space.
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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.
