Barack Obama Quotes
We need more responsibility, but we need it not just when there's a crisis. I mean, we've had years in which the reigning economic ideology has been what's good for Wall Street, but not what's good for Main Street.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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It's hard to pick out one particular wrestler.
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It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
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Why do you think so many actors are only half-developed people? It's very easy when you're a young actor to have these intense, explosive friendships for short periods of time, because you can control what's shown of you. Then you go on to your next job and reinvent yourself again. I think it's important to find something constant.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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We are God's creation, and we have a responsibility to keep ourselves at our best.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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Many actors come and disappear into oblivion. But not Salman Khan.
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I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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I have a love for Shea Stadium and its fans. I had so much fun with the fans. Yeah, they booed me. I was like, 'I know, I know.'
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I don't know if I'm a method actor.
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The amygdala is indeed crucial for monitoring our environment and deciding what's worth getting worked up over. Once the amygdala determines this, however, it merely trips another circuit to actually produce the panic.
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Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
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The mismanagement of the Small Business Health Options program is very frustrating.
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I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.
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You're never guaranteed about next year. People ask what you think of next season, you have to seize the opportunities when they're in front of you.
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I love opening night, and I love doing plays. But one of my favorite parts about doing a play or working on a new play is rehearsal.
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All of the musicians when I was young used to always say you had to tell a story when you're a musician.
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People can be teachers and idiots; they can be philosophers and idiots; they can be politicians and idiots... in fact I think they have to be... a genius can be an idiot. The world is largely run for and by idiots; it is no great handicap in life and in certain areas is actually a distinct advantage and even a prerequisite for advancement.
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No expectations, no tension between goals and performance, no outrage, resolve or intention, no action, no results. There's only one way to get a government - and a nation - to stop drifting to low performance. That's to wake up and insist on higher standards.
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We need more responsibility, but we need it not just when there's a crisis. I mean, we've had years in which the reigning economic ideology has been what's good for Wall Street, but not what's good for Main Street.
