Barack Obama Quotes
Any strategy to reduce intergenerational poverty has to be centered on work, not welfare--not only because work provides independence and income but also because work provides order, structure, dignity, and opportunities for growth in people's lives.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
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I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
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Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
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There's not many guys that can pitch at the top of the rotation floating around the league.
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In America , there's a just-add-water reality TV world in which people expect to get their Warholian 15 minutes of fame.
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Genius simply cannot be reduced to a set of rules for anyone to follow.
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When I play with my band around the U.S.A., the most requested song is 'Peace Frog.'
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Any strategy to reduce intergenerational poverty has to be centered on work, not welfare--not only because work provides independence and income but also because work provides order, structure, dignity, and opportunities for growth in people's lives.
