Barack Obama Quotes
I think the American people can change Washington. But I think that it is not going to change, because somebody from on high directs that change.
Barack Obama
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I wish I could make multiple records, stylistically. The way that I'm gonna remedy that is to make a diverse record with a lot of different styles on one record.
Sam Hunt
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
Ramakrishna
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
W. H. Davies
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
Campbell Scott
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I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.
Walter Hill
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
Ogden Nash
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If you're going to take a jab at someone, you should at least have a bit more of a personal relationship with them. I feel like you can be funny and clever, as opposed to just outright vile.
Harland Williams
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There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.
Edmund White
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In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.
Carl Bernstein
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Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.
Candis Cayne
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I respect Marvel as a company, and I think they're great, but never in my life have I looked up to being a superhero.
Finn Jones
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One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
Dorothy Allison
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It's very interesting, the dynamics of popularity. When you do something all the time, you don't worry about whether it's trendy or not.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
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One of the appeals of William Carlos Williams to me is that he was many different kinds of poet. He tried out many different forms in his own way of, more or less, formlessness. He was also a poet who could be - he was a love poet, he was a poet of the natural order and he was also a political poet.
W. S. Di Piero
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The media in America is not covering American AIDS very much. They're covering African AIDS as if somehow miraculously it's all stopped here. Well, it hasn't, and the one thing they're not saying about Africa is that all those people are going to die; there's no way these people can be saved - none.
Larry Kramer
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I love being on stage more than anything, and I think that's what comes across. I think the most honest representation of any music is to play it right there in front of people. It's a moment - it's all one of a kind, every little part of it. There's no repeat.
Alison Mosshart
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I think the American people can change Washington. But I think that it is not going to change, because somebody from on high directs that change.
Barack Obama
