Barack Obama Quotes
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I started as a teenager going up on commercials.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you can hear sorrow and sadness behind it, and that's what I try to be: multi-layered.
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Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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I said we're going to leave phones, and so we did. We sold it to Sony.
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I knew I was going to be somebody.
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I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are.
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I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.
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Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.
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I'm not going to break up my family, not for a book.
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I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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With Ghost Tunes, you just try to do what's right. And what's right is whatever the copyright owner wants to do with their music, they do it.
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I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.
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There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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Every time, I try to make something different.
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Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.
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I love Bethnal Green and where I'm from. Nothing there, especially the people, ever held me back, but I never felt that I was successful there.
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I have really high expectations for myself, so I just want to go out there and compete.
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Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.
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I'm going to try to unite all Americans.
