Barack Obama Quotes
I also believe that if we're serious about change, we need to have a real discussion about public financing for congressional elections.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
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The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
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I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.
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Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'
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When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.'
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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With every story that TV covers, somebody - some corporation, some shareholders - are making money. That's true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money off it. Every newspaper that's sold, somebody's making a dime.
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The restaurant chefs in Spain are breaking ground, but in terms of the everyday cooking in Spain I still hear people coming back and saying they were disappointed. I think it's because they're expecting the chef stuff.
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India has large proven reserves of gas that remain unexploited.
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I'd love to do a movie with Denzel Washington, or some action star such as Matt Damon or Mark Wahlberg would be really cool, too.
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If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.
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Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
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In India, we say one thing, and we do something else.
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I'm a strong believer that you can build great companies in time of both greed and fear. But you have to be paying attention and operating under the right assumptions. You don't have to believe history repeats itself, but you should accept that history rhymes.
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The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it.
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Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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A critic once described me as an 'amiable beanpole.' I got it printed on a T-shirt.
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I also believe that if we're serious about change, we need to have a real discussion about public financing for congressional elections.
