Barack Obama Quotes
We've achieved this historic progress through diplomacy, without resorting to another war in the Middle East. I want to also point out that by working with Iran on this nuclear deal, we were better able to address other issues.
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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Imagination rules the world.
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Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages.
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When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.
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We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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It's true that none of my characters are admirable. But maybe I'm primarily a satirist, and a satirist needs to hold up what's not admirable.
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Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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I became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier to do in a large role than in a supporting role to a male protagonist. In general, the women in a supporting role to a male protagonist - cry a lot.
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I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.
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I draw and play the piano badly. But when I'm doing those things, I'm concentrating so hard there's no room for worry. I find that onstage, too.
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Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
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I had done a couple of auditions for 'Amistad' and didn't feel it was going to go any further - and then the call came about heading to Los Angeles to work with Steven Spielberg. It was surreal: exciting, challenging, overwhelming.
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Verona is a very beautiful city, but Siena just never ceases to fascinate me.
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A falsehood, which may be pardoned if it is to save another, is black sin if used by a coward to save himself.
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Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency is controlling this, the sanctions against Iran are lifted - but still the US are working on their missile defense system. What is the point of this?
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We've achieved this historic progress through diplomacy, without resorting to another war in the Middle East. I want to also point out that by working with Iran on this nuclear deal, we were better able to address other issues.
