Barack Obama Quotes
I believe there are too many children who need loving parents to deny one group of people adoption rights. A child will benefit from a healthy, loving home, whether the parents are gay or not.
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There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
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The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
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When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!
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All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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My father was an electrical contractor, while I used to deliver video cassettes on a cycle to people in Juhu and Bandra, including celebrities like Mithun Chakraborty. Mithunda remembers me and is very proud of me. He can't believe that the guy who used to come to his house in short pants has become so successful.
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I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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I like being unconventional.
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War is over if you want it.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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I so never went through a bad-girl period.
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There are no soft or slothful ways to become sanctified to the point that we are prepared to live in the presence of the Savior. And there can be blessings in the burdens we bear. As a result of these struggles, our souls are stretched and our spirits are strengthened. Our character becomes more Christlike as we are tried and tested.
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Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.
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When we grew up, our family and kind of gaggle of cousins would go to the south of France for the summers. And we just had a grand time.
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I believe all positive things and negative things are valuable because they shape you.
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I believe there are too many children who need loving parents to deny one group of people adoption rights. A child will benefit from a healthy, loving home, whether the parents are gay or not.
