Barack Obama Quotes
It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
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The last album, 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run.' I was really proud of, but then I didn't actually know whether it was going to come out on any label at all. So I didn't know if anyone was going to hear it. Then of course we ended up doing another EP after that called 'Closer.'
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But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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I'm a giant Beatles fan.
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Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
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To win a major championship - I think, at the end of the day, that's what a golfer's career is based upon.
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We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own.
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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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Let us advance science to create a better world for all.
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When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie.
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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Normally, I don't like explaining songs. I don't want to kill anyone's interpretation or the story they want to make for themselves.
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
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I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.
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If we want to impact hundreds - or millions - of people, we have to do things differently. If we look at the problem as an infrastructural problem, we cannot make an impact because it requires a lot of effort. But when we convert this problem into a knowledge problem, suddenly the problem is manageable.
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I hate birthdays. I thought that I only hated my own birthday, and then I realized that I hate my children's birthdays too.
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It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.
