Barack Obama Quotes
But I believe that engagement is a more powerful force than isolation, and the changes we are making can help improve the lives of the Cuban people.
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I believe that dogma is often evil.
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I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.
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It's not a lack of confidence, because I can't argue with the fact that I've taken some good pictures. But it's just a raw fear that you've taken the last one.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
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I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.
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How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
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I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.
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I played Miley Cyrus' grandma on 'Hannah Montana,' and the first time I was on, they said, 'We love having veterans like you on because she's like a little sponge, and she's really appreciative of all the veterans that are coming on the show, and we just love that you're teaching her.'
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Bless my mom. Mom is everything to me.
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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
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I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.
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I'm the only gay person my parents know.
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Life is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like the end of a chapter, on some level setting up the beginning of another.
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A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.
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Unfortunately, it is human nature for us to only learn and grow from a place of emptiness. It's hard to learn when we are winning and on top of the world.
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Repentance is powerful spiritual medicine. There are few spiritual ills it will not cure. Each sin we leave behind through our faith in the living Christ-both those of commission and those of omission-opens spiritual doors. As we feel the potency of repentance, we better understand why Christ admonished the early missionaries of this dispensation to "say nothing but repentance unto this generation."
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But I believe that engagement is a more powerful force than isolation, and the changes we are making can help improve the lives of the Cuban people.
