Barack Obama Quotes
I just want to repeat that there's nothing that we've proposed that would make it harder for you to purchase a firearm.
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The whole Hollywood thing where people want to put me into this 'quirky-fashionista, daughter of' category makes me mad because it's promoting something that I don't believe in, and it's not who I am.
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To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.
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The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
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Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
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It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
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If you can't move the audience, they don't want you.
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Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis.
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I was in better shape when I went into boot camp than when I came out.
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I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea.
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I don't think my father considered allowing a teenager to follow his dreams was necessarily good parenting, or even parenting. I think he thought I was a teenager with teenage impulses. I'm pretty sure he knew that if he just let me follow those impulses, it would wind up being very expensive and perhaps even life-endangering.
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I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me, the really effective ones are being presented by expert storytellers.
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I'm always honest.
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As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted.
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It's kind of beating a dead horse if you're talking about going out and saying wrestling's fake, or this or that. People don't want to hear that. They want to hear, they wanted to find an inside story.
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When one looks truly at the good side of everyone, others come to love him very naturally, and he does not need even a speck of flattery.
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Disobedience is one of the few tricks you have left to hang on to the idea that you continue to exist distinctively and are still reliably connected to the person who bore your name on the outside.
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Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly.
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For me, writing for kids is harder because they're a more discriminating audience. While adults might stay with you, if you lose your pacing or if you have pages of extraneous description, a kid's not going to do that. They will drop the book.
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I just want to repeat that there's nothing that we've proposed that would make it harder for you to purchase a firearm.
