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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It [Thanksgiving] was founded by the Puritans to give thanks for bein' preserved from the Indians, an' we keep it to give thanks we are preserved from the Puritans.
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When you start a conversation about something that is under-discussed and you use art to convey it, I think that is incredibly powerful but is always going to create waves.
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I love playing the piano. I have one in my apartment, and I learnt by ear. I sing a lot of Coldplay, but do my own stuff too.
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If I have anything to offer as an actor, it's only my ability to make the person real.
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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.
