Barack Obama Quotes
If we're not there making the argument then the cultural gulf that Republicans try to exploit saying, "Ah, these city slickers: they're all looking down on you, they don't care about you. They're just trying to help out their various special interest constituencies," that argument ends up being successful.
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I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.
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It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
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If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'
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Different days, I think about different victories. Ricky Hatton is one of those fights. I respect Ricky Hatton. He's a warrior. He's a hell of a warrior.
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Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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People are going to get older and young guys are going to come in and race and get more competitive.
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My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.
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We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.
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Probably the No. 1 most important thing in my music is not to sound like anyone else. It is hard in this day and age.
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We're just a bubble in a boiling pot.
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If I put the sound of the ocean on, that's going to do something to you. And I know what that is because it does it to me, too.
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But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor's troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
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Success is seldom permanent, and failure is seldom fatal. The important thing is to keep trying.
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If we're not there making the argument then the cultural gulf that Republicans try to exploit saying, "Ah, these city slickers: they're all looking down on you, they don't care about you. They're just trying to help out their various special interest constituencies," that argument ends up being successful.
