Barack Obama Quotes

I do think that you're starting to see young people pay attention to some longterm issues that they feel Washington has neglected.

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• I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.

  

  Maisie Williams
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• I was an expert horseman.

  

  Harry Carey, Jr.
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• I think America has a brilliant future.

  

  Harold Evans
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• I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.

  

  Victor Hugo
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• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
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• I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
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• I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.

  

  Fat Joe
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• Speaking is physically difficult for me.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
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• One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.

  

  Edmund White
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• We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
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• I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.

  

  Kate Winslet
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• What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.

  

  Eddie Albert
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• There is plenty of building material and more than enough manpower to make a decent home for every Cuban. But if we continue to wait for the golden calf, a thousand years will have gone by, and the problem will remain the same.

  

  Fidel Castro
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• I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.

  

  Maeve Binchy
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• We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we live in.

  

  Adam Hamilton
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• When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.

  

  LaToya Jackson
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• I'm rediscovering Scotland; I'm falling in love with it again.

  

  Sam Heughan
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• I love being on the road. I love that lifestyle, traveling city to city, rocking out and moving on to the next place.

  

  Caleb Johnson
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• The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

  

  Andrew Brown
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• You know, people make a lot of money talking about me, don't they? They just get on those shows, and they talk away. There's nothing I can do. And that's one of the great lessons I try to convey in my book, which my mother implanted in me as a young girl.. Is you can either be an actor in your own life, or a reactor in somebody else's.

  

  Hillary Clinton
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• You have to write a book because you believe it has helped you, because you believe it has helped others personally and you are dying to share with it others because you know it will add value to their lives. You write it for them like a gift. You don't want anything from them. You don't want them to do anything for you. You don't even care if they all share the book with their friends, they don't all have to buy them. You're just dying to share this idea with people. Your challenge is to write it in a way that is compelling, enjoyable to read so that they will get the idea.

  

  Simon Sinek
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• You can be a permanent fixture in my lyrical mixture.

  

  Eminem
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• The best times I've ever had and the greatest lessons I've ever learned were when my feet were out over the edge of the line, and I was at risk of getting a little beat up, physically and emotionally.

  

  Frankie Ballard
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• I do think that you're starting to see young people pay attention to some longterm issues that they feel Washington has neglected.

  

  Barack Obama
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