Barack Obama Quotes
It's one of the biggest benefits of being president that you really don't think about until you get here.
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Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.
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Producing food to eat is the single most destructive environmental activity humans engage in.
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I don't plan on being bashful.
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I just enjoy being onstage and relating to the audience.
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I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
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Being in water makes me relax instantly.
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Every four weeks I go up a bra size... it's worth being pregnant just for the breasts.
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I loved being in a band.
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Street and park trees provide tremendous benefits to cities.
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There are days when I still want to be able to do what I want when I want, but there's also something wonderful about being secure.
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President Mandela was not a hands-on president at any time.
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Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing.
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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I've been lucky to work with people that I like most of the time. If I don't like them, I'll play head games with them to get their minds spinning.
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Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well.
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At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.
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I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?'
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But I've never looked at myself as being particularly funny.
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It's, like, your classic journey from a drama school. I went straight to the three-year acting degree, and I waitressed throughout that to support myself and for the first six months after I graduated. Then I started to get commercials here and there, and then I got a couple of roles in Australia and then a more regular role on a TV series.
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When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.
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Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
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I love a girl with a good sense of humour, who is confident but who has a sweetness to her - that melts my heart.
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There's so much we can't express in our day-to-day interaction with people because it's considered inappropriate. And acting is all about being inappropriate.
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It's one of the biggest benefits of being president that you really don't think about until you get here.
