Barack Obama Quotes
The kind of violence, looting, destruction that we saw from a handful of individuals in Baltimore, there's no excuse for that. That's not a statement. That's not politics. That's not activism. That's just criminal behavior.Barack Obama
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Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.
Carl Reiner -
It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. I suppose a combination of ambition, ego, and a real feeling that he could make a difference and could accomplish some things. All you ever had to do for Jimmy Carter was to tell him something was impossible, and he would usually do it.
Hamilton Jordan -
I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.
Nate Silver -
I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.
Karen Elson -
Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
Ted Dekker -
Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
H. L. Mencken
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I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
Bebe Neuwirth -
It's the irrational things that interest me.
Harrison Birtwistle -
It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.
Adam Brody -
I had a rat-tail when I was younger. I had this nice Bobby Brown fade, with a rat-tail that was long enough to wrap around my face. I used to chew on the end and bite it.
J. Cole -
Although my mother didn't necessarily approve of teenage girls wearing heels, she made an exception for me when I was 14 because she didn't want me to be self-conscious about my height - or to slouch.
L'Wren Scott -
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
Mahatma Gandhi
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My version of a stress dream is, really, showing up on a concert stage with a drum set and not knowing the chart.
Damien Chazelle -
There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.
Ralph Marston -
Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
I was born free.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.
Fiona Apple -
'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
Adam Driver
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You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.
DJ Khaled -
I like their darkness but I also like the pop-side of the Velvet Underground.
Martin Gore Depeche Mode -
There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.
Parker Posey -
I was a pretty free-spirited kid. I was part of a notorious group of troublemakers who didn't do well in school but had a great time exploring Beijing from the inside out.
Chloe Zhao -
Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
Malcolm Fraser -
The kind of violence, looting, destruction that we saw from a handful of individuals in Baltimore, there's no excuse for that. That's not a statement. That's not politics. That's not activism. That's just criminal behavior.
Barack Obama