Barack Obama Quotes
The world doesn't just revolve around you. There's a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.
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I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the Carter Family. I've never suffered stage fright.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.
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McCain I'd vote against under any circumstance.
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I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.
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I come from a background of hiding everything behind a computer.
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Faith Hill is a big role model.
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Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.
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The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected.
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And I'm as attached to my wife as anybody can be to another human being.
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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.
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From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it.
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The world doesn't just revolve around you. There's a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit.
