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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
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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.
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I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.
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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.
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I am proud of what I've done.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore.
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We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done.
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When I lived in London, I worked three jobs and had such long work days.
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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.
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I always want to keep challenging myself to do something that I don't even have the foresight to know what it's going to be.
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''Everything is true', he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.'
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I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
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I sort of fall in love with every character I do; you have to understand how they became what they've become, whether they're the ugly kind or the very beautiful kinds of characters.
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Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.
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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.
