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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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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In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother's Keeper, I'm personally committed to changing both perception and reality.
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I don't want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.
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It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out of the self, followed by the construction of a new one.
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I had a notepad and I wrote down 30 things to make myself better just off the top of my head, and the next day I started to do that.
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The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small price to pay for having been brought to that dependence. Meanwhile, the trouble is that relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing has yet been done.
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It's dangerous talking about yourself too much because you find yourself talking in sound bites.
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Unfortunately, there's a lot of confusion today over what is sexy and what is vulgar. It's horrifying. They say, 'Oh, that girl is so sexy,' and she turns around and the dress is four sizes too small. Or she's wearing so much stuff, you wonder how long it took her to get ready.
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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.
