Barack Obama Quotes
But race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now. We would be making the same mistake that Reverend Wright made in his offending sermons about America - to simplify and stereotype and amplify the negative to the point that it distorts reality.
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I loved making 'The Hunger Games' - it was the happiest experience of my professional life. Lionsgate was supportive of me in a manner that few directors ever experience in a franchise: they empowered me to make the film I wanted to make and backed the movie in a way that requires no explanation beyond the remarkable results.
Gary Ross
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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.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
Adam Peaty
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
Ed Koch
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
Camille Claudel
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Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.
Florence Nightingale
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And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
Samuel Butler
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Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.
Eddy Cue
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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
Flannery O'Connor
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Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan.
Zach Wamp
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
Gary Johnson
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
Tamsin Greig
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World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
Youssou N'Dour
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We talk about quantum weirdness and things being in two places at once, but it all involves atoms and molecules, stuff we don't normally interact with.
Aaron D. O'Connell
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
Ted Deutch
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
Sally Quinn
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I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my passion.
Felicity Jones
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I will run against anybody.
Usain Bolt
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I just want to inspire people to love other people and be accepting because I feel like there's so much going on in the world, and there's so many pressures, and there's so much negativity.
Lauren Alaina
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I have a secret sibling that I never knew existed and who was given up for adoption at birth by my parents, and she was born without legs.
Dominique Moceanu
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I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.
William Merritt Chase
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But race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now. We would be making the same mistake that Reverend Wright made in his offending sermons about America - to simplify and stereotype and amplify the negative to the point that it distorts reality.
Barack Obama