Barack Obama Quotes
Peace depends upon compromise among peoples who must live together long after our speeches are over, long after our votes have been tallied.
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Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
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I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.
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Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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All of his saves have come in relief appearances.
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Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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In the U.K. there is still work to be done, particularly in schools, stopping the homophobic bullies in the playground and introducing unbiased discussion on gay issues in the classroom.
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Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
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I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.
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In Los Angeles, it's always nice out. In New York, it can be nice out or horrifying. You really have no idea what you're going to get on any given day.
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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When I realized I wanted to do more writing and less traveling around the world teaching live seminars, I decided to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul(R)' book. I knew I wanted to have 100 stories in the book, so I wrote or edited two stories a week for a year.
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It is incumbent upon everyone to aid those daysprings of authority and sources of command who are adorned with the ornamant of equity and justice.
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To work for months and months and months, you kind of spill blood and give your heart and soul to something, and then you just sort of let it out into the universe and hope that people like it.
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Peace depends upon compromise among peoples who must live together long after our speeches are over, long after our votes have been tallied.
