Barack Obama Quotes
If Selma taught us anything, it’s that our work is never done. The American experiment in self-government gives work and purpose to each generation.
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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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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I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.
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My parents got to see all my hard work pay off.
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Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.
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I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.
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Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns.
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The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
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It was really really neat to make the movie because there were mentally challenged actors in the movie. So that was really really cool to work with them and they were always really happy, and they made everybody really happy on the set too.
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People who work 44 hours per week make 50 percent more than people who work 34 hours a week.
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I don't believe in a lot of schmoozing and buttering up. Not that you don't become friends in work. But I think it's a misconception that you have to do a lot of hanging before you work.
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My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.
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Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American 'invention.' The difference between the experience of the two continents is that at least Americans did not have to labour under the enormous design faults of the eurozone.
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You walk into the class in second grade. You can't read. What are you going to do if you're going to make it? You identify the smart kid. You make friends with him. You sit next to him. You grow a team around you. You delegate your work to others. You learn how to talk your way out of a tight spot.
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I'm an immigrant myself. It was a tough road to come to America and work.
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American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.
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The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.
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Sometimes at night, when I leave and ride by the front of the White House and the lights are on, it is so beautiful, I have some sense of, 'Hey, that's where I work, and Jimmy is President now.' But day in and day out, it's a job.
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I have a lot of trouble understanding how people see me as a celebrity. I work 14 hours a day, and then I just want to talk to my family, see the people I love, pet my dog, and go to bed. I'm not looking to be best friends with or emulate a celebrity.
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To watch an American on a beach or crowding into a subway, or buying a theater ticket, or sitting at home with his radio on, tells you something about one aspect of the American character: the capacity to withstand a great deal of outside interference, so to speak; a willing acceptance of frenzy which though it's never self-conscious, amounts o a willingness to let other people have and assert their own lively, and even offensive, character. They are a tough race in this.
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The true Negro does not want integration... He realizes his potential is far better among his own race.
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I used to snowboard 30 days a year. Now it's down to eight.
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Be dignified, honest and truthful.
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If Selma taught us anything, it’s that our work is never done. The American experiment in self-government gives work and purpose to each generation.
