Barack Obama Quotes
Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us to act in our time.
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Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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I think of myself as a mum who finds the time to go to work. I have to check myself for baby sick before I walk out of the house in the morning. I am really a mum... I know I am a great mother.
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We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.
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Sometimes a woman's looks or sensuality are too readily wrapped up in their power.
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I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.
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It gets boring to me when people talk about clothing brands or what boat they're going to buy next summer.
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Location is the sole difference between mobile and traditional Web.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.
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I have learned how to breathe, to use my cords differently. I had been tilting my head in a way when I talked that wasn't good for my throat. I've been working on all of that, and it seems to be helping.
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I'm letting competition drive me, and when competition drives me, I don't think anyone can compete with me.
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It's not 2038 that Social Security is bankrupt. It's now.
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I think maybe because I do other things and they mean as much to me as movie acting, it takes the onus off me. It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens.
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All of us have a lot of sides to ourselves, but the fun thing about being actor is you make one side predominant for the character you're playing.
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When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time.
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Roc Nation has an army. I'm happy because this is what I needed. I have the music, but they have the muscle.
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Patience is the secret to good food.
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Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives. From the beginning of his life to the end, no man ever fully commands any woman. It's an illusion. Men are pussy-whipped. And they know it. That's what the strip clubs are about; not woman as victim, not woman as slave, but woman as goddess.
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I've always been a cabaret-vaudeville artist - an hourlong cabaret and a floor show in a hotel - somebody like that. That's my main forte.
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My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.
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Living in Georgia, I never wanted to model. But I had the travel bug big time when I was young. I think because I had an all-American look, I was great for catalogs. They constantly sent me overseas for editorial, but I would always come back with catalog jobs. I was fine with that. It served my purpose to see the world.
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Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us to act in our time.
