Barack Obama Quotes
My mother was the one constant in my life. When I think about my mom raising me alone when she was 20, and working and paying the bills, and, you know, trying to pursue your own dreams, I think is a feat that is unmatched.Barack Obama
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
Karl Marlantes -
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
Florence King -
To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
Garry Shandling -
How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
Karl Kraus -
Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
Barack Obama -
We need to fight to prove to people that it is possible to form an E.U. migration policy that is in line with the Hungarian national interest.
Viktor Orban
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Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.
Wayne Huizenga -
I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
Quentin Tarantino -
Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
Adam Hamilton -
I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
Adam McKay -
Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.
Laura Bell Bundy -
Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
Kate Thompson
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
Kate Walsh -
The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.
Barry McGuire -
Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
Gary Wolf -
Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
Usain Bolt -
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.
Barbara Jordan -
Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
Brown Campbell
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We are all made of air There's stars in my eyes and there's sun in my hair And I'm runnin' away, it makes me feel better
Zooey Deschanel -
I look at smoking as a crutch, and as an actor I would like strip away as many crutches as possible.
Claire Forlani -
When it comes to video and pretty much everything else, the more personalized the content, the higher the chances of conversion.
John Rampton -
The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.
Dale E. Turner -
For years now I have heard the word "wait." It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This "wait" has almost always meant "never."
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
My mother was the one constant in my life. When I think about my mom raising me alone when she was 20, and working and paying the bills, and, you know, trying to pursue your own dreams, I think is a feat that is unmatched.
Barack Obama