Barack Obama Quotes

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 promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.

  

  Queen Latifah
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• There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.

  

  Naomi Watts
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• I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
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• I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.

  

  Ice Cube
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• My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

  

  Sam Abell
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• I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.

  

  Vicky McClure
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• I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.

  

  Idina Menzel
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• The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
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• I am proud of what I've done.

  

  Samantha Morton
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• Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.

  

  Rand Paul
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• Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.

  

  V. E. Schwab
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• Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
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• As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time.

  

  Laura Dern
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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.

  

  Harlan Coben
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• The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore.

  

  Fidel Castro
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• We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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• When I lived in London, I worked three jobs and had such long work days.

  

  Hannah Simone
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• One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are - are - are living in - in very, very, very bad circumstances. They cannot practice religion freely. It is not the truth at all. The fact is, we are practicing. We fast, we pray, we do our prayers.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
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• What social media has done - Facebook, Twitter - is show the audience. I don't have an audience. When I make my work, it just goes out into the ether. I have a thick skin and it just brings me down to earth, you know, to realize how out-there and far away and paltry the audience is that gets what I'm saying. It's depressing if I let it get to me. And it's the same with hanging a show, the way it's put up, like, three stories high and you can't read a single word.

  

  Raymond Pettibon Black Flag
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• I've worked on products where they go down in the middle of the night, and no one notices. You get the 'site down' notice, but it doesn't matter.

  

  Ben Silbermann
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• I decided I am not going to say things I do not mean anymore.

  

  Brian McKnight

• And with iPods and iPads, and Xboxes and PlayStations - none of which I know how to work - information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation.

  

  Barack Obama
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• People from all over the world want to be in New York. This rather simple idea took me a long time to learn.

  

  David Lichtenstein
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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.

  

  Barack Obama
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