Barack Obama Quotes
What is the empathy deficit? The inability of people to stand in other folks shoes. It's hard to empathize with people who have different values than you
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The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.
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I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.
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I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
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The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
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Since I started acting, I've always been aware of the sort of 'beastly entity' that is America and Hollywood, and semi-consciously, I devised a kind of route in - I'd seen a lot of people try and fail.
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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.
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Something like 'The Matrix' would be ideal, something where it's super agents and wire work and special effects - not necessarily running from bombs and shooting people. Something more sleek, like an assassin.
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I learned the importance of being confident. I think that at the end of the day, it's not so much about what you look like - it's really about the way that you feel. That resonates with people.
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The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.
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I'd always wanted to be an action heroine. That's a chick dream, getting to wear a leather bodysuit and be blonde and kick ass. But, what really attracted me to 'Dredd' was the script. It was fantastic! It was about people and characters, and not just about explosions and fighting.
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A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
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Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
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In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about the subway.
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I have laughter dates with myself, where I find comics on YouTube and watch them. Louis C.K. was my first laughter date a couple years ago. I'll also watch those videos of people doing idiotic things. That cracks me up.
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I need a spiritual connection - I can make changes, but I can't make miracles - and I need people around me who'll support me and believe in me and tell me the truth and not let me deceive myself into avoiding the what's scary and hard and necessary.
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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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Memory is the only thing that binds you to earlier selves; for the rest, you become an entirely different being every decade or so, sloughing off the old persona, renewing and moving on. You are not who you were, he told her, nor who you will be.
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I've already proved I have what it takes to be the champion. I'm right there.
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Although no one loves a typo, it's close to impossible to eradicate every single little mistake in a manuscript.
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I want to do stories that inspire people.
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What is the empathy deficit? The inability of people to stand in other folks shoes. It's hard to empathize with people who have different values than you
