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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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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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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I hate bell peppers, which is annoying because they technically have my name all over them.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.
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You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!
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No single initiative by itself can solve the climate crisis.
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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.
