Barack Obama Quotes
It's the best deal of, of this whole thing is it turns out I've got this nice home office. And at the end of the day, yeah, I can come home, even if I've got more work to do, I can have dinner with them. I can help them with their homework. I can tuck them in. If I've gotta go back to the office, I can.
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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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I have an issue with rage. I'm going to work that out, long term.
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A man with a silver spoon may get his share of supporters, but he can never be an inspiration for somebody! Patience and hard work are the key to every man's success.
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
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New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone.
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In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.
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I like being involved with projects that are not only entertaining but are also thought provoking. Either that, or jobs that keep a roof over my head. A mixture of both is always nice.
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If you look at the history of large financial institutions, most of them have succeeded because of a deep presence in their home market.
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I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.
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Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.
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No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.
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It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.
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I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.
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People have said to me, 'It must be nice to prove so many people wrong,' but I've never really cared about proving anything to anybody else.
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I'm always happy and most at home on the stage. I love film and television, but I love live performance... your immediacy with the audience, it makes all the difference in the world.
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I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.
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I believe much of the pain of a breakup comes from having a life plan that you have fallen in love with. When it does not work out, you become angry that you now have to pursue a new life plan.
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The biggest downside of my current job is that I have to wear a suit to work. Wearing uncomfortable clothes on purpose is an example of what former Princeton hockey player and Nobel Prize winner Michael Spence taught economists to call 'signaling.'
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Al Gore is an heir to the old czars and commissars. He never saw a regulation he didn't like.
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Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.
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Nobody should be wearing a scrunchie anymore. I feel angry. That is my tipping point.
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The big challenge our society faces is that we live in an increasingly open world with increasingly closed communities. This is also due to the evolution of the Internet, where people only read things that won't challenge their beliefs.
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It's the best deal of, of this whole thing is it turns out I've got this nice home office. And at the end of the day, yeah, I can come home, even if I've got more work to do, I can have dinner with them. I can help them with their homework. I can tuck them in. If I've gotta go back to the office, I can.
