Barack Obama Quotes
I was never great, but I was a good [basketball] player, and I could play seriously. Now I'm like one of these old guys who's running around, and the guys I play with, who are all a lot younger, they sort of pity me and sympathize with me. They tolerate me, but we all know that I'm the weak link on the court. And I don't like being the weak link.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that.
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports.
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For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
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Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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I think many people are finding things I do very funny and strange.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.
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A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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We're trying to be that franchise that year-in and year-out is competing for a championship.
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I was never great, but I was a good [basketball] player, and I could play seriously. Now I'm like one of these old guys who's running around, and the guys I play with, who are all a lot younger, they sort of pity me and sympathize with me. They tolerate me, but we all know that I'm the weak link on the court. And I don't like being the weak link.
