Barack Obama Quotes
The only certainty in war is human suffering, uncertain costs, unintended consequences.Barack Obama
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
Damien Chazelle -
I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
H. G. Bissinger -
In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.
Naveen Jain -
I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
Larry Wilmore -
I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.
Oliver Stone -
You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
Larry Flynt
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President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.
Randy Neugebauer -
When I was in school, sport was given utmost importance. I think it's fantastic for character building, for team playing, and I think it's a great profile for a nation. One in every six people on Earth is an Indian, and I look forward to the day when we can compete with the heavyweights of the sporting world and do well in the medal tally.
Abhishek Bachchan -
Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
Talulah Riley -
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair -
The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
Irina Shayk -
It's time to recognize what compromise means: no side wins or loses all.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.
Parker Stevenson -
When I first moved to New York, I was still returning to Tennessee every few months to perform.
Valerie June -
In the future, I'd like to make jewelry and sell it under my own name. But right now, I've got enough on my plate!
L'Wren Scott -
I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.
Hank Aaron -
I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.
Ingrid Newkirk -
My original aim after 'The X Factor' was to earn enough money in a year to make the whole experience worth it - you know, buy a car, a flat.
Olly Murs
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Our mission for younger people is to do our best to make exercise cool, hip - the thing to do.
Caitlyn Jenner -
Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home.
John Abizaid -
Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.
George Herbert -
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.
Saint Patrick -
Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, 'How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?' and avoid 'How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?'
James Thurber -
The only certainty in war is human suffering, uncertain costs, unintended consequences.
Barack Obama