Barack Obama Quotes
So civil society is the conscience of our countries. It’s the catalyst of change. It’s why strong nations don’t fear active citizens. Strong nations embrace and support and empower active citizens.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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The problem that I think is reasonable to assert about Fox and its coverage is that they make up stories out of whole cloth and then make a big deal out of them.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything... and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.
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Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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There's something so quirky and fun and nerdy about the Tony Awards... We're dorks being silly up there.
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Fellas, if you find a good woman, don't be scared of commitment. It is good for you. It causes you to grow up and deal with your selfishness like nothing else.
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An environmentalist can oppose factory farming because it's reckless stewardship. A conservative can oppose factory farming because it is destructive to small farmers and to the decent ethic of husbandry those farmers live by. A religious person can oppose factory farming because it is degrading to both man and animal - an offense to God.
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I think the problem I have is that first impressions are the ones that stick with people. And people's first impressions of me are obviously from the film, from 'Gregory's Girl.'
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I've also learned that you can't be all things to all people. Whatever it is that you're successful at, that has to be the No. 1 goal.
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So civil society is the conscience of our countries. It’s the catalyst of change. It’s why strong nations don’t fear active citizens. Strong nations embrace and support and empower active citizens.
