Barack Obama Quotes
Today is a chance for Americans, especially our young people, to say thank you for all the things we love from Japan. Like karate and karaoke. Manga and anime. And, of course, emojis.
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Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.
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Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.
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There are lots of actors who are awful people, but nobody talks about them being awful because they've made billions.
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When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.
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I always try to put something personal on my albums just to give people out there a little piece of my history and how I got where I am and who I am.
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I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.
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Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.
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It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
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I really like playing good guys, of course. Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes make us who we are, by how we respond to them. I just don't want to play boring good guys, but I don't have that problem, anyway.
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Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.
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Well, as you know, General Motors does not make hybrids. Ford only made 4,000 hybrids last year.
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Most people think I'm immodest.
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People wanted Bitcoin to live so much, they basically willed it back into existence. That showed me how passionate this community was about it.
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You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.
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With epidemics, people have been standing on the shore, waiting for the gusher to hit the ocean. But to prevent epidemics, you have to look at the various little sources that feed into the river.
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I will never be an insider. I want to be the champion of people who don't have insiders and lobbyists supporting them.
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I feel like I've been fortunate enough that I've gotten to meet and work with some really passionate people.
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I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them.
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People are much more important than superficial environments.
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Food is the essential thing to gaining weight. Protein, you know, that's basically it - protein.
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I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although I did something I had never done before, which was to direct a play, The Laughter Epidemic, it felt like a vacation.
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Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives.
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Prayer is surrender--surr ender to the will of God and cooperation with that will. If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my will to the will of God.
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Today is a chance for Americans, especially our young people, to say thank you for all the things we love from Japan. Like karate and karaoke. Manga and anime. And, of course, emojis.
