Barack Obama Quotes
Does that mean that all vestiges of past discrimination would be eliminated, that the income gap or the wealth gap or the education gap [between Afro-Americans and white] would be erased in five years or 10 years? Probably not, and so this is obviously a discussion we've had before when you talk about something like reparations.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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I think Don Cheadle has always done great work.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
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I wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.
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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
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Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.
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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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We sold OkCupid to Match in January of 2011. In September of 2012, I became CEO of all of Match, which is the operating segment of IAC that contains all of the dating properties.
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Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade too far into a sea of sensibility.
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I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.
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I've been on sets my whole life.
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The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.
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My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.
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I'm so genuine about what I do and how I want to do it, and I get anxiety when I'm pressured from the outside.
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The war is for the family. The battle for their children's education and their grandchildren's freedom is as real to them as if they could witness the clangs of bayonets on the field or hear the blasts of mortars in the harbor.
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But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it.
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The whole 'studly womaniser' thing, I mean, I quite enjoy the title - it's just not very accurate.
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In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
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Does that mean that all vestiges of past discrimination would be eliminated, that the income gap or the wealth gap or the education gap [between Afro-Americans and white] would be erased in five years or 10 years? Probably not, and so this is obviously a discussion we've had before when you talk about something like reparations.
