Barack Obama Quotes
Globalization combined with technology, combined with social media and constant information, have disrupted people's lives sometimes in very concrete ways; a manufacturing plant closes and suddenly an entire town no longer has what was the primary source of employment.
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I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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I love bayou life.
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My favorite toy as a kid was Legos. I loved building things, and that's what we're doing with SumZero.
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I enjoy meat, but I can do without it.
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Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
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I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four hours away, and we would take the bus up to New York.
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As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my fiction: childhood, nature, sexuality, transformation. I realized that it wasn't by accident that I was drawn to their narrative structure and motifs.
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You know, in 1975 I couldn't get a job in New York City because I was American. The kitchens were predominantly run by French, Swiss, German, and basically I got laughed at. I had education, I had experience, but got laughed at because I was American.
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Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.
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There are some people that the press like to pick on and not just the gay press, but the press in general. And some people, the press just doesn't care about at all.
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As a teenager I read a lot of books. Books with lots of scary trends, things like nuclear weapons and overpopulation and global diseases, and I thought, 'Wouldn't it be great to write stories that showed people these problems and that we could do something about them.'
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Globalization combined with technology, combined with social media and constant information, have disrupted people's lives sometimes in very concrete ways; a manufacturing plant closes and suddenly an entire town no longer has what was the primary source of employment.
