Barack Obama Quotes
It's the idea held by generations of citizens who believed that America is a constant work in progress; who believed that loving this country requires more than singing its praises or avoiding uncomfortable truths. It requires the occasional disruption, the willingness to speak out for what's right, and shake up the status quo.
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'Frontline' started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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I went through a training camp; I worked extremely hard. I prepared for UFC 200. This was the big one. This one meant everything to me.
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Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.
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Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam... second, the culture of Islam.
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More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.
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It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
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In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.
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In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.
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But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not only to the unwise, who would easily agree with him, but also to the wise.
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I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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A guitar can be so human, so sorrowful, so angry, and I wanted to figure out how to achieve that vibe without having to actually use guitars, because 'Badlands' is a very futuristic record - and making it that in an era of futuristic music is a really hard thing to do!
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What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
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Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.
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People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.
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Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.
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You ever taste some damn chicken so horrible, that you wished the chicken would show up at your house and show your lady how to cook him?
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It's the idea held by generations of citizens who believed that America is a constant work in progress; who believed that loving this country requires more than singing its praises or avoiding uncomfortable truths. It requires the occasional disruption, the willingness to speak out for what's right, and shake up the status quo.
