Barack Obama Quotes
If you listen to the rhetoric, it is so over-the-top and so overheated, and most importantly, is not acknowledging the fact that there's nothing else [like guns] in our lives that we purchase where we don't try to make it a little safer if we can.
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I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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The South of France is one of my favorite places in the world.
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To me, country music's about life. It's about Monday through Friday. It's the blue-collar, 40-hour week, songs about life. It used to have more of a sound, but I think the heart of that's still the same. It's still American music.
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Music isn't selling like it used to, but the one thing you can't steal or download is a live show experience or a T-shirt.
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I can't stress how much my daughter is an inspiration to stay sober. When I come home and she opens those big blue eyes at me, it's the most amazing feeling I could ever feel.
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I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad!
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Marilyn Monroe: What about the difference in our ages?
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They never forgot That even the most dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.
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I suggest that US foreign policy can still be defined as 'kiss my ass or I'll kick your head in.' But of course it doesn't put it like that. It talks of 'low intensity conflict...' What all this adds up to is a disease at the very centre of language, so that language becomes a permanent masquerade, a tapestry of lies.
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The Candy Man can
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For me, it is a moment of anguish. All my life, my whole adult life, I believed in merger and unity of the two territories.
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None of this 'there is no way to continue' bullshit. Because it is pure and utter SHIT.
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Really, I'm the type of girl, and I know other girls who are the types of girls who it's not about the chain, it's not about the car, not about the house or this, that, and the other that you think are impressing me. It's really the intellect. It's really stimulating my mind.
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I had cut a typing class because I hated to type, and I still don't know how to type, but now I can afford to have people type for me.
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Although my first instrument was actually the violin, I prefer the piano as my main instrument. I love harpsichord and church organ and, of course, I love all synthesizers, analog and digital, as well as all sorts of percussion instruments, in addition to my beloved Alpine Horn and trumpet. And there's nothing like a Hammond organ and a real Moog synthesizer, or even a real Oberheim. When I played the mellotron, I had special effects tapes of all my albums made and was "playing" them through live concerts or different recordings like "on cue" analog samplers. I liked that part of playing them too, because they provided some very original punctuations in the music.
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It's important that when kids are listening to my music they don't think of it as their parent's music.
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The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.
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If you listen to the rhetoric, it is so over-the-top and so overheated, and most importantly, is not acknowledging the fact that there's nothing else [like guns] in our lives that we purchase where we don't try to make it a little safer if we can.
