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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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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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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Whatever we areWe belong togetherWherever we areWe will find each otherWhoever we areWe areForever one.
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I struggled for a long time to get anything published.
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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
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I found L.A. much less responsive to the name Juilliard than New York was. In New York, that name actually means something. People will look up from their desks when you walk in. In L.A. it's, 'Oh yeah, that's a music school. What do you play?'
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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.
