Barack Obama Quotes
Africa’s progress will depend on development that truly lifts countries from poverty to prosperity - because people everywhere deserve the dignity of a life free from want.
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In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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America preaches integration and practices segregation.
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I remember, as a kid, I'd follow the rooster and the chickens and watch what type of grass they'd eat. And me and my friends would eat that grass, like that was our lunch.
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
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In Valdosta, Ga., during a mini-tour event, a player named James Black bet me $20 he could put five golf balls in his mouth and then close his mouth all the way. I tried it but could get only two in there.
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Here's the thing that people don't understand: I don't really care. I've never been a careerist. It's not a strategy. I react to certain characters and story lines and specific mode of filmmaking.
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I'm a darned good listener.
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If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.
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But by all this I am not deterred, for I have seen, I have heard, I have felt.
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The energy moving through your body is quite rhythmic.
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Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have. People want to know what happens next, people hate the villains and love the lovers. It's good, fun TV. But I wouldn't call 'Downton' a soap opera as such.
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Africa’s progress will depend on development that truly lifts countries from poverty to prosperity - because people everywhere deserve the dignity of a life free from want.
