Barack Obama Quotes
Evil does exist in the world. A non-violent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies. Negotiations cannot convince al Qaeda's leaders to lay down their arms. To say that force may sometimes be necessary is not a call to cynicism - it is a recognition of history; the imperfections of man and the limits of reason.
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.
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No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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I get homesick.
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You just have to take control of your own performance.
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I love football, I've never really taken an interest in anything else.
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If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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It's a blessing to have fans acknowledging your craft, period.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.
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My jersey hanging from the ceiling is going to be a symbol of the hard work of the people I played with.
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Life is about perspective and how you look at something... ultimately, you have to zoom out.
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Christiania has a lot of strong, nuclear families. It gave us a sense of empowerment and belonging and richness. We had so much love; we were never in doubt that we were wanted in this world.
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I know that sometimes we, as Americans, we reach outside of our means, and every once in a while we like to 'police the world,' but I think we do a lot of good as well.
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I'm a full-time believer in writing habits...You may be able to do without them if you have genius but most of us only have talent and this is simply something that has to be assisted all the time by physical and mental habits or it dries up and blows away. Of course you have to make your habits in this conform to what you can do. I write only about two hours every day because that's all the energy I have, but I don't let anything interfere with those two hours, at the same time and the same place.
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Evil does exist in the world. A non-violent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies. Negotiations cannot convince al Qaeda's leaders to lay down their arms. To say that force may sometimes be necessary is not a call to cynicism - it is a recognition of history; the imperfections of man and the limits of reason.
