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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Look, you see those groups talking about negativity and anger, and they'd do that for two albums, and then you'd see them change up. I knew they couldn't do a Kurt Cobain on their whole career. You can't stay like that all the time. It's like when Hammer tried to go gangster. You can't be something that you're not.
Prince
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We're lucky to live in a country where we have freedom of speech, and I don't know what the other Avengers are up to, personally, but I know they're all really good people.
Cobie Smulders
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Politics in this country [USA] is always tough. It's always contentious, because this is a big country and a diverse country, and people have strong points of view, and we've got a great diversity of interests.
Barack Obama
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What is the danger in the personalization era? Psychologists call it confirmation bias—“a tendency to believe things that reinforce our existing views, to see what we want to see.” What happens when we encounter new information that contradicts our beliefs? Researchers at Stanford monitored subjects’ brain activity to trace how they responded to cognitive dissonance. Democracy is endangered when we only listen to people we agree with.
Craig Detweiler
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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
