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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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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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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I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood.
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I always knew I didn't want kids, and I didn't want to get married.
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The most meaningless term in the English language is 'I take full responsibility.' When a politician utters those words it means absolutely nothing.
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When it comes right down to it, whatever business you're in, you're in the people business. After all, people prefer to do business with people and companies they find likeable.
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Most designers don't dress in fashion. They dress in an anonymous way so that people are just judging their work.
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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.
