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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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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When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
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It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.
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Like the way we get to know about the society of Korea, Iran, and other countries through their films, people will get to know about our country. Our films are a mirror of our society.
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Blogging is great, and I read blogs all day long. However, my goal is really to have a deep, meaningful discussion with people. For some reason, I'm able to accomplish this best via email.
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I feel like I have been portrayed as if I was standing outside Cipriani hoping someone picks me as their plus-one.
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Holland is a really small country, but with a very strong club and festival scene. Dance music has been huge in Holland since the late eighties. So there were a lot of opportunities for producers and DJs to release records and play live.
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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.
