Barack Obama Quotes
Fear, uncertainty and discomfort are your compasses toward growth. If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don't run you've already lost.
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.
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Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.
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I like deconstructing things. I like cutting the legs out from under something that feels secret.
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Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've had a prior training in book culture.
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My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.
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I was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They'd say, What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey?
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My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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Don't worry about Yemen. Yemen started in peace, and it will end its revolution in peace, and it will start its new civil state with peace.
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In fiction, a reaction shot is a brief portrayal of how your character reacts to something that someone else has done. In contrast to more direct character building, your guy doesn't initiate the sequence; he completes it. Exactly how he completes it can tell readers a lot about him.
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At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.
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All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.
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When I wear the hat of management, it is important that our management behaves and conducts as management accountable to the board.
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My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
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Playing the running back position, your legs, that's your living, that's how you make your living. You have to have great thighs, knees, everything.
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I'm not running anywhere, it's like ninety-five degrees out.
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In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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When I go on location, we have a schedule. And when you have a schedule, you know when you're not working, so I train very well on location. But I also train three or four times a week at home, but today I train differently than before.
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I came to the conclusion then that "continual mindfulness". . . must mean, not a sergeantmajor-like drilling of thoughts, but a continual readiness to accept whatever came.
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Fear, uncertainty and discomfort are your compasses toward growth. If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don't run you've already lost.
