Barack Obama Quotes
The fact that there is a robust debate in Congress is good. The fact that the debate sometimes seems unanchored to facts is not so good.
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I have to wear two sports bras when I do my cardio. It takes a lot to hold these puppies up!
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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The want of money is the root of all evil.
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It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
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You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
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I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.
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I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.
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'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.
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This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
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Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.
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Alternate translation: Come brethren, if you have a mind to be ingrafted in the vine, It is a pity to see you lopped off in this manner From the stock. Reckon up the prelates in the very see of Peter; And in that order of fathers see which has succeeded which. This is the rock over which the proud gates of hell prevail not.
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I'm quite proud of growing up in New Zealand where, from quite early on in primary school, you're learning to count in Maori, Maori mythology and dances and colours and history, and I think that gives a child a really good grounding.
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Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.
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Apart from the cross, condemnation is normal. Without Jesus, we all deserve to be condemned and punished for sin. But here's the good news: 'There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus'.
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The fact that there is a robust debate in Congress is good. The fact that the debate sometimes seems unanchored to facts is not so good.
