Barack Obama Quotes
Peace is not just the absence of war. True peace depends upon creating the opportunity that makes life worth living. And to do that, we must confront the common enemies of human beings: nuclear weapons and poverty; ignorance and disease.
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My paternal grandfather Rustom Mehta had a huge influence on me because of his ethics and his values.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
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Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
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Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little... I think that's where the tie comes from.
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I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.
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I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
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A Reagan appointee, Justice Kennedy is no liberal, as he has shown on issues from affirmative action to corporate campaign spending. But he has repeatedly sided with gay litigants before the court.
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The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.
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Because Mr. Mandela's early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
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Jake, why are you sitting in the front? I thought you liked it in the rear.
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Every time you give a parent a sense of success or of empowerment, you're offering it to the baby indirectly. Because every time a parent looks at that baby and says 'Oh, you're so wonderful,' that baby just bursts with feeling good about themselves.
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Peace is not just the absence of war. True peace depends upon creating the opportunity that makes life worth living. And to do that, we must confront the common enemies of human beings: nuclear weapons and poverty; ignorance and disease.
