Barack Obama Quotes
If we are not serious about facts and what's true and what's not. And particularly in an age of social media where so many people are getting their information in sound bites and snippets off their phones, if we can't discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems.
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I believe that you can always learn from observation.
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'?
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With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
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When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.
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I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a lot, at least in a basic way, about how the real world works.
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Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute.
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We're getting dumbed down, taste-wise.
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Whenever television cameras are interviewing people in their homes, I tend to look over their shoulders and have a good snoop at their living rooms. I am always astonished at how clean they all look, with nothing out of place or unnecessary or dropped down any old how.
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Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.
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If we are not serious about facts and what's true and what's not. And particularly in an age of social media where so many people are getting their information in sound bites and snippets off their phones, if we can't discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems.
