Barack Obama Quotes
No country should deny people their rights because of who they love, which is why we must stand up for the rights of gays and lesbians everywhere.
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.
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How can it be said we should use only constitutional means in our struggle, when all resistance is illegal and we have no way to change the brutal realities of the racism regime?
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
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My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.
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As an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping to be mothers.
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Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.
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As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented - even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting, put in the long hours, and make the uncomfortable but necessary decisions to achieve success.
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It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.
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Improv requires one thing I lack that I think most mothers need - the basic instinct to put someone else first.
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...there was practically one handwriting common to the whole school when it came to writing lines. It resembled the movements of a fly that had fallen into an ink-pot, and subsequently taken a little brisk exercise on a sheet of foolscap by way of restoring the circulation.
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In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.
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The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth always lies within their vision.
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Some people even think I wear a wig. Do they think I went into a salon one day and said, Can you please screw this up really bad?
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No country should deny people their rights because of who they love, which is why we must stand up for the rights of gays and lesbians everywhere.
