Barack Obama Quotes
A child's course in life should be determined not by the zip code she's born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.
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There is always pressure in football.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
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I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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I remember doing one of those computer careers tests. It told me I'd make an ideal HGV lorry driver because I've got 100 per cent spatial awareness. I'd be able to back them into tight parking spots.
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi shut its doors.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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It's different for every project. Some parts are quicker than others to get and know; sometimes right up until the last moment you're just praying that something will click. But you can only do a certain amount of work and then at some point you've got to think: 'OK, I'm just going to have to leap now.'
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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I really try to get eight hours of sleep, and I really try not to go out after a Tuesday or Friday night show because I know I have a two-show day the following day.
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I think the Bush Administration was bound and determined on regime change, and we will be paying the price of that for some time to come.
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I think the Lord's Prayer is a very powerful prayer. And the prayer of St. Francis.
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Peace is the most valuable commodity. And it's free!
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I thank God for all the people whom God sent into my life, the people who gave their best so that I could learn to give my best.
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A child's course in life should be determined not by the zip code she's born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.
