Barack Obama Quotes
I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face.
Quotes to Explore
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Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely forces us to realize that what we are doing isn't working or that our picture of the world is wrong. We fail. So we change.
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Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's crazy!'
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines.
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It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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I believe it's easier to be an actor. Somehow, interviewing seems to be intrusive on people's lives.
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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I never supported violence. Before the formation of TMC, I was a member of the Congress Party. Gandhi's Congress. Non-violence is a philosophy that runs deep.
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
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Set a clear, easy-to-understand vision for your company, and make it be a mission people believe in.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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Compared to TV, 'Palookaville' was restriction-free, except we had no money and no time.
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Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
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I'm the demon alcohol, demon alcohol, demon alcohol, demon alcohol. Let's party.
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I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face.
