Barack Obama Quotes
You've got audiences cheering at the prospect of somebody dying because they don't have health care and booing a service member in Iraq because they're gay. That's not reflective of who we are.
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.
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Back in high school, I didn't ever see a Muslim homecoming king or queen - there was never even anyone nominated. It just seemed for a lot of those events, Muslim kids were not being included, and it was probably our fault too - no one was going for it, but no one was trying to push us to do it, you know?
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
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On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.
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For me, the idea of curating can be expanded. Curating science, curating art, music and theater and performance and not only bring those things into art but bring art into those areas.
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You begin to take on the mentality of your coach. If he feels so confident, then I feel confident.
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If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?'
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The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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I'm one of the regulars. I play this doctor, Dr. Andrew Brown, going through some marriage problems.
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I'm sort of a reverse Method actor. In my personal life, I become my characters. After 'One Tree Hill', I started dressing in Converse and ripped jeans and hoodies. On 'Awkward', it manifests in how I speak.
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Being gay has never been a big deal to me, which is why it's a little funny to be getting all this attention about it.
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I am a gay American.
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As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness.
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You've got audiences cheering at the prospect of somebody dying because they don't have health care and booing a service member in Iraq because they're gay. That's not reflective of who we are.
