Barack Obama Quotes
For me, personally, the most difficult moments had to do with not just terrorist attacks, but also shootings.
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Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.
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Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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You do your work as fully as you can, and the ones who hear the sound join in.
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
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I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
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I'm quite confident with the way that I look but you find something else to focus on don't you if, I mean I, I have body issues that's my thing so you find something to focus on when you're a perfectionist, I think.
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I did a gig at a comedy club in Bournemouth where they served a buffet while the acts were on. There was the clang of people carving turkey during the set. If you put comedy and turkey side by side, turkey always wins.
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When I'm filming, it's in the contract - 'No kiteboarding' - ha ha.
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In South Africa, I feel I am a stranger, at best an animal.
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I'm not cynical.
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I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.
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People have tried to corner the market on being offended, corner the market on language and corner the market on opinion. Should I lose my job 'cause I offended somebody? No, of course not. Your life should never be affected by public opinion.
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No one ever built the filibuster rule. It just kind of was created.
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In terms of content, you can make a problem for yourself, I mean, make the contest difficult, let's say, with certain subject matter that is inherently dramatic.
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Fitzgerald could sense that America was poised on the edge of a vast transformation, and wrote a novel bridging his moment and ours. The Great Gatsby made manifest precisely what Fitzgerald’s contemporaries couldn’t bear to see, and thus it is not only the Jazz Age novel par excellence, but also the harbinger of its decline and fall.
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We celebrate Labor Day by not going to work?
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For me, personally, the most difficult moments had to do with not just terrorist attacks, but also shootings.
