Barack Obama Quotes
I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.
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Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.
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I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.
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We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?
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It's definitely weird, because pretty much everybody owns the Tony Hawk videogame. Just going over to people's houses and watching play me as I walk in – that's actually happened a few times and that's so weird. It's like, 'Dude, you're playing me right now.' It was too weird.
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I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.
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You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.
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I don't like getting people upset, so that's not my goal. But I like putting people in situations where how they respond says a lot about them.
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People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.
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You know, food is such - it's a hug for people.
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Granny beads are what they're called when a grandma works the garden all day - you always see them - they have a handkerchief around their neck with a lot of dust on them, and then the sweat will go down and make these black beads of sweat and dirt around their neck. And that's what they call granny beads.
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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
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I want to be the number one songwriter-producer guy of all time.
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I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.
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People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star.
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More exposure has give to me more discipline because I am seeing that more people are wanting to observe what I am making/filming/singing; this does motivate me to make videos for every week.
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The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.
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It's all in how you look at your life, because no one has a wonderful life. But you can make it what you want it to be.
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I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.
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I've always believed in working hard, and I'm grateful that people seem to connect with the kinds of stories I'm passionate about telling.
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I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will write it.
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Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.
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I don't have one role that I'm particularly fond of doing, and I don't really look for it to differ all the time, but I will try anything and do anything. If it's a role I connect with, I'll go for it, no matter what's involved.
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I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.
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I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.
