Barack Obama Quotes
If we're serious about building an economy that lasts, we have got to get serious about education. We are going to have to pick up our games and raise our standards.
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
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I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
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I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.
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I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
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I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.
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A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
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I think that the future of currency is digital, and Bitcoin has a good shot at being the currency of the future.
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A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'
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The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is.
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That which a person works hardest on, he winds up having. That's one of the fundamentals of this universe.
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There are certain people who have become better artists, but they're brilliant at marketing. I think someone who's been phenomenal like that is Madonna.
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I have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in.
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There's a McDonald's in the Louvre.
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That expression "positive neutrality" is a contradiction in terms. There can be no more positive neutrality than there can be a vegetarian tiger.
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If we're serious about building an economy that lasts, we have got to get serious about education. We are going to have to pick up our games and raise our standards.
