Barack Obama Quotes
Africa’s progress will also depend on security and peace - because an essential part of human dignity is being safe and free from fear.
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions.
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Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I'm very happy with what I've accomplished, but we're going for more.
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When I'm out the street, I get people whispering behind me, 'Isn't that Jennifer Lawrence?' I should start doing autographs - although if you stood us side by side, you wouldn't make that mistake.
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There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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Old Etonians are the most charming people in the world. It's not just the analytic ability and the great education; there is a really easy confidence to them that draws people to them and makes their passage though the world a little easier.
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I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.'
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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I guess because of my act, people think that I say things they want to say, and that they can just come up and say anything to me.
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I don't know how I got involved in 'Celebrity Wife Swap.' It came from my agent Hugh. He got the opportunity for me.
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I had a fashion designer tell me that when I wear a dress of his, it sells out across the country because Jewish girls ‘look to me,’ and Jewish girls are the ones that buy expensive dresses. It made me sad, because I want to be an influence in ways other than by a pretty dress.
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We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress.
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We have a lot of positive, constructive American engagement here in Montreal - and none of it's from the Bush administration, which represents the single biggest threat to global progress.
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Every year I try and challenge myself more and more, whether it be acting or everything I do. I just want to try and be better than the year before.
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It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver.
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Africa’s progress will also depend on security and peace - because an essential part of human dignity is being safe and free from fear.
