Barack Obama Quotes
I hope you don’t listen to this. I hope you choose to broaden, and not contract, your ambit of concern.
Barack Obama
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
Edmund White
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A lot of people don't get second chances.
Tamar Braxton
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
Orson Scott Card
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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
Val Kilmer
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
Otto von Bismarck
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.
F. Sionil Jose
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One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.
Camille Paglia
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Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.
Jack Nicholson
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Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
Maeve Binchy
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To generate creative ideas, it's important to start from an unusual place. But to explain those ideas, they have to be connected to something familiar.
Adam Grant
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At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.
Ada Yonath
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I'm just going to keep working hard on and off the training field.
Dele Alli
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I get nervous before everything - dates, filming, award shows. I just don't want to say something stupid. But as soon as I step out on that stage, or as soon as I show up to a date, it all goes away, and I just have a great time with whoever I'm with.
Taylor Lautner
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Shooting a fight is like shooting any other scene. You have to tell a story using a very specific choreography.
David Leitch
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Yonkers made me strong and made me believe in myself, because so many people would doubt you and not believe. There are people that would believe in you, but the environment was so harsh, nobody wanted you to get out, you know?
Mary J. Blige
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I hope you don’t listen to this. I hope you choose to broaden, and not contract, your ambit of concern.
Barack Obama
