Barack Obama Quotes
I wonder, sometimes, whether men and women in fact are capable of learning from history--whether we progress from one stage to the next in an upward course or whether we just ride the cycles of boom and bust, war and peace, ascent and decline.
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
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No access to me, nor my staff, will ever affect what we do to protect consumers of the state of Florida.
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When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
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An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
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PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.
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It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
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Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.
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I've met Bob Dylan. We did one of those non-handshake handshakes. I was with all guys, and he shook hands with all of them, and then they said, 'And this is Kate,' and I put my hand out, and he didn't put his out. And then I took my hand away, and he put his out. It was one of those. We finally did shake. And then I fainted!
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I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.
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I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.
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I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.
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And when the pressure was on us, the team handled it very well. One has to learn to play well under pressure.
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There is the great creative part of it. The writing is the best part.
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There's nothing more marvelously wintery than orange root veg mash; some butter is all it needs.
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You create a work of art. You do not know whether it will get public sanction. Sometimes outstanding films do no business, and sometimes films which are not so good work.
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There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it.
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I wonder, sometimes, whether men and women in fact are capable of learning from history--whether we progress from one stage to the next in an upward course or whether we just ride the cycles of boom and bust, war and peace, ascent and decline.
