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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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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Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
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I try to invest smart. I'm not a baller. I'm not a blinger.
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I am a record executive and I shall be right there in your face with my records.
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One of the biggest gifts you can give a child is confidence, because confidence will take you miles - more than talent, more than anything else. So yes, I want my children to have confidence and to be kind.
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I want to be clear: The United States of America has done what we said we would do. That’s not to say that our work is complete.
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I remember being at Greenblatt's on Sunset, and some guy just walked straight up to me, and he had some bling on and whatever, and said something about a party down in Malibu and asked if I would jump in his car and go to the party. All I could think was, 'Who are you? I don't know you, and I don't care about how good your car is.'
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I'm going to try to unite all Americans.
