Barack Obama Quotes
I want every math teacher to know math. I want every science teacher to have expertise in science. I want them to know how to inspire and engage young people.
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Whether you breach the Fourth Amendment 20 percent of the time or 100 percent of the time, it's still not the point. The point is whether or not you still collect millions of people's information with a single warrant.
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If you can be a good example to other people, why not try to be that person? I have a bit of a people pleaser in me, but not so much so that it's out of control.
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That show, 'The Amazing Race' - is that about white people?
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I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no.
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People have told me that they cannot put down 'If I Stay' after reading it, and readers have become very invested in the love story between Adam and Mia.
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People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.
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Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.
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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.
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Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.
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I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.
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I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.
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A show hosted by a black had never been accepted, so the first time that knob's turned on, people are judging against all they have ever been taught. I may have been the first black in the house.
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It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.
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Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.
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Mike Judge is very specific about how people look in his projects, and I think it's because he's an animator.
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My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.
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I remember, in my first show in New York, they asked, 'Where is the Indian-ness in your work?'... Now, the same people, after having watched the body of my work, say, 'There is too much Indian philosophy in your work.' They're looking for a superficial skin-level Indian-ness, which I'm not about.
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I don't believe people playing rock n' roll should have crowns. We're not kings and queens. Anybody can play it.
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Trump gives public service a bad image. It's not about flash, it's not about wealth, and it's not about hairstyle. It's about doing something for people and being an advocate for the community you represent.
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What could a smartphone do for me that would make people go out and buy another one?
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I love music so much, and I love musicians - I love singers. It's fun. That's what music's supposed to be. Fun.
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I love horror movies because they're really fun. They tap into those wonderful primal emotions.
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I want every math teacher to know math. I want every science teacher to have expertise in science. I want them to know how to inspire and engage young people.
