Barack Obama Quotes
I think we would have made a lot more mistakes and would have accomplished a lot less had we not been grounded in some basic truths.
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If anyone has followed my career, they know that there's been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.
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Anyone who knows me knows what I'm about - how much I'm into empowerment, equal rights and everyone just loving themselves.
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The difference between an actor and a star is the budget and the overall presentation of a film.
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You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.
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Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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I started my career with 'Refugee' in Bhuj. Now, it has become a full-fledged city.
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I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.
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Fashion should be playful.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.
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A lot of girls think they have to choose between being the smart geeky type or the beautiful bimbo.
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If you want to go east, don't go west.
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Steven Spielberg making a Ready Player One movie is going to change the course of human history as pertains to how quickly virtual reality is adopted. He's going to shows the whole world the potential of VR, which is one of the reasons I think he's doing it. Once you have to compose for 360 degrees, and a movie is different every time you watch it depending on where you choose to look, it's like the dawn of a new era.
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The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
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The ancient covenant is in pieces; man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling immensity, out of which he emerged only by chance. His destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty. The kingdom above or the darkness below: it is for him to choose.
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No evil lost is wailed when it is gone.
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I think we would have made a lot more mistakes and would have accomplished a lot less had we not been grounded in some basic truths.
