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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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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Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
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You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common.
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I play a crazy talk-show host, but that's not me. It's like an actor playing a role.
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I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.
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I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties.
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I fool around with colors and decorating, which I thoroughly enjoy. Also, I scribble a bit for my own particular pleasure. This scribbling might be something I want to do in a future show.
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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.
