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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If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful.
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It's beyond my control who's going to cast me or how you're going to pigeonholed, so for me, it's just I want to keep doing different things because I want to get better, so hopefully I'll be hired to do them.
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About a billion years ago, long before the continents had separated to define the ancient oceans, or their own outlines had been determined, a small protuberance jutted out from the northwest corner of what would later become North America.
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God often uses a man or several different men to impact your life with the anointing of the Holy Spirit.
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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.
