Barack Obama Quotes
When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us
Barack Obama
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Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.
Sam Donaldson
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
Hanna Rosin
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Porridge and the urban lifestyle don't mix well.
Fergus Henderson
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
Kangana Ranaut
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A label's typical plan would be to put something out that's safer and get fans, and then push buttons, but my idea is to push buttons first, scare off the people who are gonna be scared off, and then the right people will like you for who you really are, and stay with you.
Kacey Musgraves
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I don't have any dream role. I give my 100% to every character I play, and when the film clicks, it automatically becomes a dream role.
Mahesh Babu
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I have people who say, 'You should dress up like this, or you should dress more modest; you should cover up more.' And then, at the other end of the spectrum, you have, like, 'Why are you still wearing your scarf? You're in America, you know.'
Yuna
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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Beatrix Potter
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I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping out of school.
Walter Dean Myers
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I lead a simple life. I feed the fish. I walk the dogs. I cook dinner. Occasionally I take a meeting.
Macaulay Culkin
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I love 'First Wives Club' and 'Death Becomes Her' and movies about women like that.
Tavi Gevinson
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When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth.
Patricia Cornwell
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Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing instruments. Similarily, we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
Aristotle
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Make yourself comfortable in everything you do.
Sammy Sosa
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Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.
Thomas Sowell
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Democracy appears to be safer and less liable to revolution than oligarchy. For in oligarchies there is the double danger of the oligarchs falling out among themselves and also with the people; but in democracies there is only the danger of a quarrel with the oligarchs. No dissension worth mentioning arises among the people themselves. And we may further remark that a government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.
Aristotle
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Democracy is a process, not a static condition. It is becoming, rather than being. It can be easily lost, but is never finally won.
William H. Hastie
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When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us
Barack Obama
