Barack Obama Quotes
Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them... Torture is how you get bad information, not good intelligence. Torture is how you set back America's standing in the world, not how you strengthen it.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.
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Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
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Early in the morning, it's super tough for me to eat right away, but I still need energy for practice. I try to start out with a protein smoothie, a green juice, or some sort of fruit.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.
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As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.
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Expanding background checks will help create a uniform standard for all gun purchases and prevent criminals and the dangerously mentally ill from obtaining powerful weapons.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I do just genuinely believe Chris Hemsworth is a 6'3, more muscular version of me. And more handsome, but I try.
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Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you're the luckiest person on the planet, and the possibility of finding two is just bizarre. It isn't. We have multiple passions.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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I'm not a person that socializes very well.
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We got all the influences for it Global a Go-Go from Willesden High Road. When you go out for milk and cigarettes you go through three countries because all the shops and cafes are playing their own music, like going through hell.
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I found music when I was very dark. I felt unheard, with inner dialogues that I didn't know how to express.
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We are hungry for things that have touched human hands.
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When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult.
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Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them... Torture is how you get bad information, not good intelligence. Torture is how you set back America's standing in the world, not how you strengthen it.
