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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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.
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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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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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What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
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My frustration has always been that I'm a Christian, but I don't buy into, never have bought into, the belief that Jesus and God are these men who just dictate that this is how you have to live your life or you are going to burn in hell.
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In all superstition wise men follow fools.
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A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around people of the Mad Men generation, people like John Cheever and, in more modern times, Don DeLillo, who I always mention.
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I suppose it's a sentimental thing, but I wouldn't want to do more 'Lewis' than we did 'Morse' because I do still think of it as an offshoot.
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I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
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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.
