Barack Obama Quotes
America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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A label's typical plan would be to put something out that's safer and get fans, and then push buttons, but my idea is to push buttons first, scare off the people who are gonna be scared off, and then the right people will like you for who you really are, and stay with you.
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I don't think there is much American music.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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New York has an amazing history of farming and fishing that goes right back to the Pilgrim Fathers. At its core are the four seasons, which are distinct, well-established and similar to those in Lyon, where my family lives: when it's snowing in New York, a week later it will be snowing there.
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I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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It's okay that your parents aren't perfect; no one's are. And it's okay that they didn't have any perfect children either; no one's are. You see, our whole purpose is to strive together in righteousness, overcoming our weaknesses day by day. Don't ever give up on each other.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
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I'm getting the training I need to progress as an actor. If something comes up and I have to drop, I'll drop.
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Progress is more important than perfection.
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America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
