Barack Obama Quotes
Civility also requires relearning how to disagree without being disagreeable. Surely you can question my policies without questioning my faith or, for that matter, my citizenship.
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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Over the years, with all the experience, I've become more mature about the subjects I pick. I have a better understanding of what works at the box office. Once the story is finalised, I surrender to the director and follow him. After that, my performances speak for themselves.
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Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
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Voting for Romney after the train wreck of that was the eight years of W. Bush is like losing your pay check playing a rigged game of three-card monte and then playing the same game again a week later 'cause the cards are a different color.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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In the context of social media, reddit is more about the media than the personalities.
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I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.
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Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
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Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.
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An outsider's point of view is always handy.
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If you're lucky enough to pick what you do, that's the greatest career you can have. Ultimately, that's my goal: to have choices.
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I still don't really know what my style is. I like a lot of different kinds of comedy, I like watching it and I like being inventive and original. That's the problem with doing a longer set - you can't do every joke that you have because some stuff contradicts other stuff. Even when you know that the audience knows that you're joking and it's not true, you still can't do a joke about your family dying and then later talk about your Mom. I mean you want to keep some kind of cohesive order going.
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I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix of everything.
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These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up … I cannot be on the way up again. … What they want is dead heroes, like Sid Vicious and James Dean. I'm not interesting in being a dead (expletive) hero. … So forget 'em, forget 'em.'
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Civility also requires relearning how to disagree without being disagreeable. Surely you can question my policies without questioning my faith or, for that matter, my citizenship.
