Barack Obama Quotes
The changes in thinking about same-sex marriage have come slowly at first and then in rapid course. If such change is possible in this area, is it also possible in the vexed and sordid realm of race relations?
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I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way, and the gallery can support them - the outside part of the tree, where it is more about reaching the outside world, connecting with the outside world. That is the role of the gallery, no? Why does the artist have to do that?
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
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I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressions and that I should be converted with my whole heart to the Lord my God.
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Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.
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Fashion has a long interest in collaborative situations.
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Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
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My great-grandfather came here as a refugee from the pogrom in Ukraine.
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I have met so many of my idols - like Ray Charles, Brian Setzer - all these cats that are legendary musicians. If they had said to me, 'Hey man, I'm busy,' it would have crushed my soul.
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A writer should care about one thing - the language. To write well - that is his duty. That is his only duty.
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I think, if I had my choice, I would spend all my time in the studio writing, and creating music.
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Many persons nowadays seem to think that any conclusion must be very scientific if the arguments in favor of it are derived from twitching of frogs' legs (especially if the frogs are decapitated) and that, on the other hand, any doctrine chiefly vouched for by the feelings of human beings (with heads on their shoulders) must be benighted and superstitious.
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The changes in thinking about same-sex marriage have come slowly at first and then in rapid course. If such change is possible in this area, is it also possible in the vexed and sordid realm of race relations?
