Barack Obama Quotes
Let me tell you another place to look for some savings. We are currently spending $10 billion a month in Iraq when they have a $79 billion surplus. It seems to me that if we're going to be strong at home as well as strong abroad, that we have to look at bringing that war to a close.
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I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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It's just like heirloom tomatoes; this is heirloom music. We used to have all kinds of diversity in our poultry, in our vegetables, in our fruits, and slowly but surely the monoculture beast comes in. I'm saying that's not a good idea. And if it means that I gotta do it on my own, then I do it on my own.
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I win by submissions, knockouts. There's guys ranked above me, but no one's interested in seeing them fight. They want to see me fight.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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Mamata Banerjee is just a casual worker, just like a commoner.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
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My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
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Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
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We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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I feel like if we can use the combination of basically data-driven hunches and bet on really first-class talent to deliver the shows, that I think we could do as well as the networks do, who basically have a 75 to 80 percent failure rate for new shows anyway - even after all that development and pilot work.
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I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
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There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
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Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.
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I knew that in Hollywood they tend to pigeonhole talent, and when you experience a little success in one genre, their instinct is to keep you in that box.
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Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this.
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The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
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Let me tell you another place to look for some savings. We are currently spending $10 billion a month in Iraq when they have a $79 billion surplus. It seems to me that if we're going to be strong at home as well as strong abroad, that we have to look at bringing that war to a close.
