Barack Obama Quotes
I don't want my generals or my defense secretary or my national-security team to ever feel deploying weapons to kill people as routine or abstract, even if the targets are bad people.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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Because I'm in the public eye, I think that I would prefer to date someone regular who isn't in the news all the time, but I think even if you date someone regular, they'll still put it in the news.
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Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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I'm a four-down guy. I can rush the passer and stop the run. I know I can be a difference-maker.
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I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
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I've learned never say never.
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I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.
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If you want to wear long hair or wear that dress, as long as you're not hurting yourself or anybody else, I say do it. If you want to go out and have a romantic, sexy affair, do it.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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The Arab spring that began in 2010 was driven by the educated youth who were connected to the outside world. They had visions of liberal politics derived from social networks. They used innovative means to spread awareness and to network among activists.
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When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
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Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or unjust causes such as the Vietnam War.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.
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GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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Just because I do a few comedy bits about gay people, that does not mean I'm out there promoting some anti-gay cause.
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Al Gore has dedicated his life to detail. George W. Bush has not. He's the first to admit it.
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People who call me the Twilight girl and mean it. Please, pigeon hole me. That means I did it right.
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It's very important that children learn to use technology - it's part of life - but also that they learn when to put it down.
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Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song.
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I don't want my generals or my defense secretary or my national-security team to ever feel deploying weapons to kill people as routine or abstract, even if the targets are bad people.
