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 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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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 started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a close relationship with the leaders of our choir. We were recording when I was 15, so it wasn't like I had to wait until 25 to find out certain things.
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Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.
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It was a great privilege for me and my teammates to follow in the footsteps of sporting greats like Roger Federer and Tiger Woods.
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I have been in Wall Street all of my life. I love it. It has been good to me. I know many wonderful, decent, honorable, ethical, hard-working people that were in Wall Street with me.
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Once established, reputations do not easily change.
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I'm a former hippie, so clothes are important to me - your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still defines people. But, I change a lot. I'm in my Brooks Brothers period now.
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What is astonishing about the social history of the Vietnam war is not how many people avoided it, but how many could not and did not.
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Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism; it is an important part of promoting peace.
