Barack Obama Quotes
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. I want people to smile and giggle and enjoy the book. I'm not trying to save the world through literature.
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It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.
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I never predicted that I'd be a comedian, but it was something that came so naturally to me. I just felt good doing it.
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The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
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Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
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Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.
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I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.
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Isolated and unincorporated, North Gulfport lacked a basic infrastructure: flooding and contaminated drinking water were frequent problems. Although finally incorporated in 1994 - not long after the arrival of the first casino - many of North Gulfport's streets still lack curbs, sidewalks, and gutters.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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India has given me everything. It has made me Vijay Mallya.
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I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.
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I want to write weirder stuff and convince people that it's Top 40.
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I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.
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I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.
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If you're afraid to live your life in a glass bubble, how can you do what we do in this industry?
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I am surprised that in various countries, whether it's the U.K. or the U.S., you see isolationist tendencies that would tend to work against the co-operation, whether it's climate change, immigration, innovation, helping the very poorest. Those are things where you want to think across country boundaries and see a win-win-type solution.
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I think of sports writers as mediating between two worlds. Athletes probably think of sports writers as not macho enough. And people in high culture probably think of sports writers as jocks or something. They are in an interestingly complex position in which they have to mediate the world of body and the world of words.
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My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad.
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The political power of the Country must fall eventually into the hands of certain great families as it always has done in other republics.
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You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done.
