Barack Obama Quotes

This pleased Onyango, for to him knowledge was the source of all the white man's power, and he wanted to make sure that his son was as educated as any white man.

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• As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.

  

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• I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.

  

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• But I'm not objective when I'm acting.

  

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• I don't know who Little Richard is.

  

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• For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

  

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• That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

  

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• Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

  

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• The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

  

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• I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldn't do it, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done.

  

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• Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all 'pretend' most of the time.

  

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• While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!

  

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• Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.

  

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• I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.

  

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• I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.

  

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• I did notice growing up that there are so many things, obstacles and things, that people think you can't do because you're Muslim or because you're wearing a hijab. You hear a lot of no's. That was something that I wanted to see change.

  

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• Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

  

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• Who was Jesus anyway? After twenty centuries, there is not much anyone can agree on. The four canonical gospels don't measure up to modern standards of biographical writing, and - outside of this material - there is precious little contemporary evidence, apart from a few glancing mentions of Jesus or the movement centered on him.

  

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• Logic has borrowed, perhaps, the rules of geometry, without comprehending their force... it does not thence follow that they have entered into the spirit of geometry, and I should be greatly averse... to placing them on a level with that science that teaches the true method of directing reason.

  

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• Independent filmmaking burns off a lot of storytelling fat.

  

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• So the quesiton is," Bex said slowly,"How far are you willing to go?" I looked at my three best friends in the world. "How far is there?

  

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• This pleased Onyango, for to him knowledge was the source of all the white man's power, and he wanted to make sure that his son was as educated as any white man.

  

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