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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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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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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Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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Lipstick is iconic. It's the one product that marks out an era, and a certain lip colour can define a season. It makes me feel more 'done'. I wear a beige lip in the day, but red when I'm going somewhere - it makes that transition from day to night. I just slick it on; I don't bother with lipliner.
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Religion originates in the child's and young mankind's fears and need for help. It cannot be otherwise.
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The status quo - Obamacare - is not acceptable.
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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.
