Barack Obama Quotes
Lincoln - they used to talk about him almost as bad as they talk about me. So democracy has never been for the faint of heart.
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Around a third of parents still worry that they will look like a bad mother or father if their child has a mental health problem. Parenting is hard enough without letting prejudices stop us from asking for the help we need for ourselves and our children.
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Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.
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If you look closely at 'Breaking Bad' and any given episode of 'The X Files,' you will realise the structure is exactly the same.
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It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.
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Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do. Never for an instant harbor a doubt of it.
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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
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It's too bad I'm not a flirt. When I'm on the sets, I'm too busy working on my scenes to look at the ladies.
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I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.
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Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.
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I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.
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The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.
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Let's just say I was really bad. Now I have grown into myself. I have changed.
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Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.
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I'm doin' something different. I mean, I talk a little bit about race and interracial dating, but it's not the heart of my act. I just try to do what I think is funny; there's no huge message or through line.
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I've been a big fan of Joe Hill ever since his first novel, 'Heart-Shaped Box.'
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I believe, for a long time, protracted wars test the will of any democracy, to be sure, and people will underwrite a protracted war if they see some progress. But if they don't see progress, and it appears to be futile and useless, then that political support begins to evaporate rather quickly.
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A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.
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I'm really bad at keeping secrets.
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I think by now if people hire me, they know I'm going to improvise. I'm an improviser by trade.
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I remember that when I was in my 30s, a hot age for an actress, lots of offers were coming in, but nothing was great, and I didn't work for 18 months. It was at a really fruitful age, and I wanted to work. There was nothing coming down the pipeline that I thought was good - and then I got 'The Piano.'
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There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
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Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Lincoln - they used to talk about him almost as bad as they talk about me. So democracy has never been for the faint of heart.
