Barack Obama Quotes
If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
P. C. Cast
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
Barbara Smith
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
Imelda Marcos
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
Daisy Fuentes
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
Dalai Lama
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If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.
Caitlin Rose
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God isn't really interested in our batting averages.
Dale Murphy
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Young people have so many letdowns that people don't realize.
Ione Skye
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Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.
Edmund Phelps
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Things happen for a reason. I'm happy, but not I'm not satisfied with the things I'm doing.
Pablo Sandoval
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
Nancy Gibbs
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
Kacey Musgraves
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
Larry Niven
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
Mae West
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Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?
P. J. O'Rourke
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Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.
Barbara Boxer
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I think every country has to recognize its competitive advantage and liberate its strengths to be a partner in global trade, and that's the only way you can survive and succeed.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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It was easy to get the offers for the good-looking vapid dude. I guess that's my power alley.
Jason Lewis
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What I'm doing with my body and with my golf game, I'm trying to extend the longevity of my career.
Jason Day
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If I try to be or do something noble that has nothing to do with who I am, I may look good to others and to myself for a while. But the fact that I an exceeding my limits will eventually have consequences. I will distort myself, the other, and our relationship-and may end up doing more damage than if I had never set out to do this particular 'good.'
Parker Palmer
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I turned up my nose at yoga for years. I was a rugby player growing up. But now I know. When I'm on those long international flights, like 22 hours from L.A. to Sydney, I'll get up sometimes and do yoga in the aisle just to stretch out a little bit.
Jason O'Mara
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The death penalty fulfills a preventive function, but it is also very clearly a form of revenge. It is an especially severe form of punishment because it is so final. The human life is ended and the executed person is deprived of the opportunity to change, to restore the harm done or compensate for it.
Dalai Lama
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If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void
Barack Obama