Barack Obama Quotes
People have a tendency to blame politicians when things don't work, but as I always tell people, you get the politicians you deserve. And if you don't vote and you don't pay attention, you'll get policies that don't reflect your interest.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
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A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.
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I'm just trying to approach what I make with as much respect and research as I can, and just make it with a good heart.
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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.
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When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
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I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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Her experience had taught her that people who insisted on having others recognize their outstanding qualities usually didn’t have any.
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When the Bangladesh war happened, people in Pakistan who did not support it were called unpatriotic. My father was in the jail at that time, and a lot of those who knew my family used to call us children of a traitor.
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I want to be with people I really like. I don't want to be working on things with people that I'm not happy to be there with.
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People confuse being world No. 1 with winning a Major championship.
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People have a tendency to blame politicians when things don't work, but as I always tell people, you get the politicians you deserve. And if you don't vote and you don't pay attention, you'll get policies that don't reflect your interest.
