Barack Obama Quotes
If we want America to stay on the cutting edge, we need young Americans to master the tools and technology that will change the way we do just about everything.
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There's something scary about acting always, because basically you do all this work in a vacuum, and then suddenly there's a lot of money spent making a film, and there's suddenly a camera here, going, 'Right? What are you gonna do?'
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IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.
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Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.
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I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.
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People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?
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The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - that incorporates Chinese elements and sounds.
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I love being a part of something so many people can relate to and enjoy.
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I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired you creatively. There's no escaping that.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.
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Now, we don't teach children in schools to be creative. We don't teach them to experiment. We want them to fill in the right answer, tick the right answer in the box.
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I think the open software movement (and Linux in particular) is laudable.
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At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence.
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If we want America to stay on the cutting edge, we need young Americans to master the tools and technology that will change the way we do just about everything.
