Barack Obama, Sr. Quotes
That's what the leadership was teaching me, day by day: that the self-interest I was supposed to be looking for extended well beyond the immediacy of issues, that beneath the small talk and sketchy biographies and received opinions, people carried with them some central explanation of themselves. Stories full of terror and wonder, studded with events that still haunted or inspired them. Sacred stories.
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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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 think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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I'm letting inspiration move me, in whatever direction it may, without concern if this sounds too rap or too indie, or there's too many words in it.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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When I was a kid growing up, you maybe secretly wanted to be an actor, but you never said.
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The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.
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It is not unusual for electorates to want contradictory things, and politicians often make promises accordingly.
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Movie stars are supposed to be healthy. They're kept happy and nutritionally together.
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That's what the leadership was teaching me, day by day: that the self-interest I was supposed to be looking for extended well beyond the immediacy of issues, that beneath the small talk and sketchy biographies and received opinions, people carried with them some central explanation of themselves. Stories full of terror and wonder, studded with events that still haunted or inspired them. Sacred stories.
