Barack Obama Quotes
It is moments like these that force us to try harder, and dig deeper, and to discover gifts we never knew we had - to find the greatness that lies within each of us.
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A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
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The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.
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A lot of artists go in the studio and say, 'OK, whaddaya want me to do? Is it gonna be a hit? I'll do it. Is it gonna get played on the radio? I'll do it.' So they start makin' these songs, and they fall in the same tempo, same category, same this, same that, and it'll just all sound the same.
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My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.
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Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.
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I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.
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The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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'Legion' was a lot of fun to shoot. It was a real unique apocalypse scenario that takes place in a diner out in the desert. Very much like a drive-in B-movie, but in a good way.
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If I could get someone like John Grisham or someone like that to sit down and write a book with me, I'd love that.
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I've never so appreciated what actors do and how strange it is.
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The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed tone and disregard for history. Such reductive speculation encourages a really empty scientism.
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It is moments like these that force us to try harder, and dig deeper, and to discover gifts we never knew we had - to find the greatness that lies within each of us.
