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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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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I think every business, really, has a unique reason for being, unique assets, unique attributes, a unique history. And that can be turned into a very attractive design story, essentially, that consumers can relate to.
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From search and books to online TV and operating systems, antitrust affects our daily digital lives in more ways than we think.
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For me, whether it's in a book or on T.V., a recipe has to be simple. I have a short attention span, so to open a cookbook and see a recipe that goes on for three to four pages, well, I've lost interest.
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So more than 8 million people lost their jobs. It's going to take a significant push on our part and time before that comes down. I don't anticipate it coming down rapidly.
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Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney.
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There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.
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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.
