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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The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
Samuel Butler
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The Tea Party has definitely increased political involvement, not only among Tea Party members but among people who oppose the Tea Party members. It's been a general stimulus.
P. J. O'Rourke
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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.
Patricia Richardson
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Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.
Magic Johnson
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I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.
Rachel Weisz
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
Felix Frankfurter
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The South of France is one of my favorite places in the world.
M. Ward
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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.
Gary Allan
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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.
G-Eazy
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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.
AJ McLean
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I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad!
Patricia Polacco
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Marilyn Monroe: What about the difference in our ages?
Jack Benny
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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.
W. H. Auden
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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.
Harold Pinter
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The Candy Man can
Leslie Bricusse
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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.
Lee Kuan Yew
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None of this 'there is no way to continue' bullshit. Because it is pure and utter SHIT.
Linus Torvalds
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On camera, the audience can see your eyes close up - they can see behind your eyes - and when you're on stage, you need to make sure that the person sitting in the back row can feel what's happening behind your eyes, even if they can't see them. Having a live audience is exhilarating and exciting all on its own, but you know, it is quite different.
Annaleigh Ashford
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My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.
John F. Kennedy
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Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?
Lois McMaster
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The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
William Butler Yeats
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True transformation only comes from sustainable strategies.
Hillary Clinton
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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.
Barack Obama