Barack Obama Quotes
Speaking via twitter on August 13, 2017 in response to the 2017 Unite the Right rally in harlottesville, Virginia and quoting Nelson Mandela. Archived via Wayback Machine on August 14, 2017. Source: Bipartisan condemnation for 'Unite the Right' rally by CNN's Jennifer Hansler on August 13, 2017. Archived via Wayback Machine on August 14, 2017.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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Young people really want you to give them a road map, and they will follow it to a tee. If you tell them, 'These are the eight steps you have to take to be successful,' they will do all eight very earnestly.
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The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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I couldn't care less about what anybody else has to say.
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I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women. You can see that clearly with things like 'The Hunger Games.'
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It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award.
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I hope I'm building a record of being a good team player and not just standing for my principles but being willing to work for them. I think when you do that and you work really hard, people take notice.
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You’ll know what to say when the time comes. That’s the art, eh? What to say, and when to say it. And the rest is silence.
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If I were the government I would have a special brigade of gendarmes to keep an eye on artists who paint landscapes from nature. Oh, I don't mean to kill anyone; just a little dose of bird-shot now and then as a warning.
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For this will to deceive that is in things luminous may manifest itself likewise in retrospect and so by sleight of some fixed part of a journey already accomplished may also post men to fraudulent destinies.
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Requiring the Fed to focus on preserving the purchasing power of the dollar will create a solid foundation for economic growth.
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It is interesting the way you create something and send it out into the culture, and then the culture kind of goes berserk.
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It's hard - some people get inspired by a feeling, but I'm mostly inspired by melodies.
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Chasing profits and building a long-term profit model are two different things.
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If you have an argument with someone and you sulk, sometimes you don't want to speak to them. But it is important to keep your friends close to you and do the right things.
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My brother and I became convinced that to buy and sell legally sheared vicuna hair was the only way to help the vicuna increase in numbers. If the animal becomes useful to society, people will take care of the animal; if it's not useful, they will not take care.
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The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.
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I can't relax. I'm not happy unless I'm working on stuff. 'SNL' is always a huge workload, as enjoyable as it is.
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My mother is happy with whatever I choose to do in life as long as I'm happy, healthy, and safe.
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I always used to watch 'The Daily Show,' and there were all these comedic geniuses there. I didn't know if I was going to be hired full time or not. At the beginning, I was sort of hired as a part time, on and off guy. When I first got hired - it was August 2006 - and I was working on and off, and they'd call me whenever.
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The cosmic calendar compresses the local history of the universe into a single year. If the universe began on January 1st it was not until May that the Milky Way formed. Other planetary systems may have appeared in June, July and August, but our Sun and Earth not until mid-September. Life arose soon after.
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In 2016, Washington and its coalition partners conducted more than 7,000 strikes in Iraq and Syria. And in Libya, the United States has conducted more than 350 air strikes since August as part of its military campaign against ISIS there.
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Speaking via twitter on August 13, 2017 in response to the 2017 Unite the Right rally in harlottesville, Virginia and quoting Nelson Mandela. Archived via Wayback Machine on August 14, 2017. Source: Bipartisan condemnation for 'Unite the Right' rally by CNN's Jennifer Hansler on August 13, 2017. Archived via Wayback Machine on August 14, 2017.
