Jon Voight Quotes
Obama is a very good actor. He knows how to play it. And he is very adept at creating this 'Obama' - this character who is there whenever the world needs something.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
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I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.
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Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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I have a sidekick, Keith Robinson, who's very funny. I've known Keith for over 20 years; he's my best friend.
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The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
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To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
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Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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Spain used to be very individualistic in its sporting activities. Now we are showing we are pretty good in teams - that is an improvement.
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'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.
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I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things.
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With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
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The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
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I think we're programmed for hardship. In my experience, human beings are happiest when they're working themselves to the bone. People are more likely to feel adrift and unsatisfied when they have too much leisure time. Obstacles are good.
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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'I have a headache' 'You can't get headaches' 'So you're fond of telling me.'
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Even as a kid in the Bronx, I wanted an adventurous life.
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Obama is a very good actor. He knows how to play it. And he is very adept at creating this 'Obama' - this character who is there whenever the world needs something.
