Barack Obama Quotes
When we start using religion as a bludgeon in politics, when we start questioning other people's faith, we start using religion to divide, instead of bring the country together, then I think we've got a problem.
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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Our planet's lands and oceans are already stretched to meet the demands of 7 billion people. The human population continues to grow. The search for sustainable solutions is an economic and a moral imperative if we are to create the future we want.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
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When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
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I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.
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I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.
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I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.
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Outsourcing isn't the answer to everything. Lots of internet marketing pundits will tell you to outsource, outsource, outsource. Having a trusted team that knows each other and enjoys working together is good, too.
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The whole military structure in Haiti that existed until the early 1990s was put in place by the American occupation. At the top there were Southern white officers, who led an army that crushed the indigenous resistance - the cacos. A high-ranking U.S. officer said when he arrived, "To think these niggers speak French!" Later, Haitian officers attended the notorious School of the Americas at Fort Benning. The threat from the U.S. is something that is always hanging over people's heads: If we don't behave, we'll have occupation again.
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Water. Its sunny track in the plain; its splashing in the garden canal, the sound it makes when in its course it meets the mane ofthe grass; the diluted reflection of the sky together with the fleeting sight of the reeds; the Negresses fill their dripping gourds and their red clay containers; the song of the washerwomen; the gorged fields the tall crops ripening.
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When we start using religion as a bludgeon in politics, when we start questioning other people's faith, we start using religion to divide, instead of bring the country together, then I think we've got a problem.
