Barack Obama Quotes
We will stand against violence and intimidation. We will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings.
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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
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A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that.
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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I've been a speaker. I've been a majority leader. I've been a minority leader. Those are the sort of things I don't need any more.
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We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to... until they really bite us in the butt.
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I'd been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn't really. You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies.
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Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
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To be able to make decisions and see them come to fruition and feel the excitement around them, what it generates within the company, how the artists get motivated - that's the most rewarding part; feeling I can be a catalyst for an artistic experience for our artists and for the public.
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Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It's the tiredest, most trite and worked-over subject in the world, and that was why it appealed to me, because I wanted to do something really new and different about something that had been worked over all these centuries, and I think I did.
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Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.
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Radio was my life growing up. Then, I started in our family band with my uncle, my father, my aunt and my little brother. We would go to The Chicken Box and all the bars and play.
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What is magnificent about humans is when they decide to turn and stand. If they respond with non-violence on principle and hold their ground, they are really magnificent.
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We weaken our greatness when we confuse our patriotism with tribal rivalries that have sown resentment and hatred and violence in all the corners of the globe. We weaken it when we hide behind walls, rather than tear them down, when we doubt the power of our ideals, rather than trust them to be the great force for change they have always been.
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The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.
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We will stand against violence and intimidation. We will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings.
