Barack Obama Quotes
People are very hungry for something new. I think they are interested in being called to be a part of something larger than the sort of small, petty, slash-and-burn politics that we have been seeing over the last several years.Barack Obama
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A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.
Ian McShane -
We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.
Ingrid Betancourt -
I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
Jack O'Connell -
I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
Rachel Stevens -
My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest in just goofballing my way through, thinking, 'Ah, no one's ever going to see this anyway.'
Lance Henriksen
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
Oliver North -
There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
Carl Bernstein -
I don't like to sell my finest pieces.
Beatrice Wood -
Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.
Yoko Ono -
It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
Major Owens -
I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.
Ed Harris
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Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.
Fernando Botero -
It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.
Camille Paglia -
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
Fay Weldon -
The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media will not produce a more compliant citizenry. It will produce a more alienated, suspicious and disenfranchised public, one more likely to chafe under a government's attempts at control, all to the benefit of terrorist groups.
Samantha Power -
No two wars are identical.
Kate Adie -
If people still trust me with a funny line, then that is fine. If that is what gets me work.
Olivia Colman
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I'm always going back to New York for Broadway workshops or reading. So I always keep my foot in the door: I'm always on the lookout for the next Broadway show.
Katherine McNamara -
With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.
Abraham Maslow -
I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering.
Liam Neeson -
Politics is dirty, and I don't like to talk about dirty things... My conscience is clear.
Johannes Heesters -
The renunciation of the Gita is the acid test of faith.
Mahatma Gandhi -
People are very hungry for something new. I think they are interested in being called to be a part of something larger than the sort of small, petty, slash-and-burn politics that we have been seeing over the last several years.
Barack Obama