Barack Obama Quotes
Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism; it is an important part of promoting peace.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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I have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay.
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I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.
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Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.
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Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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I've never had a couch that needed to be cleaned or learned how to couch-clean in general. That feels too grown-up.
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I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.
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I love anything by Sisley for face and Lancaster for body.
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A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.
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Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.
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Any story that gets us thinking, and particularly young people, thinking why? Whether it's as a result of reading the book, or coming out of the theatre or the cinema, I think we should just simply be asking the question 'why'? Why did it happen to those people? Was it necessary? And anything that gets us thinking like that is really important.
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Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.
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Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism; it is an important part of promoting peace.
