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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Ray Bradbury published his first story 29 years before I was born. He established himself as an international writer long before I arrived. When my mom was nine months pregnant with me, my father read Bradbury aloud to her as I listened intently, in utero. And I later became his biographer.
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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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Illegal immigration is a genuinely national issue, and resolving it requires a national commitment not just on health care but also border control, law enforcement and other resources.
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The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.
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He who governs himself according to what he calls his principles may be punished either by one party or the other for those very principles. He who proceeds without principle, as chance, timidity, or self-preservation directs, will not perhaps fare better; but he will be less blamed.
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My mom took my sister and me to see Elvis [Presley] in concert when was, maybe 5 or 6, and I liked everything about it.
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Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.
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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.
