Barack Obama Quotes
If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.
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God isn't really interested in our batting averages.
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Young people have so many letdowns that people don't realize.
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Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.
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Things happen for a reason. I'm happy, but not I'm not satisfied with the things I'm doing.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
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Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?
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Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.
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I think every country has to recognize its competitive advantage and liberate its strengths to be a partner in global trade, and that's the only way you can survive and succeed.
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Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.
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Evil report carries further than any applause.
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People make sequels a lot in Hollywood, and sometimes it feels like there's never an original thought.
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As many have discovered, it is entirely possible (although not particularly desirable) to love two people with all your heart. It is entirely possible to long for two lives, to feel that one life can't come close to containing it all.
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For whatever reason somebody can be convinced to buy a PC, it opens up a whole new market for all of us in the software business.
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Really, acting is like anything else. The more time you put in, the more you learn and the more you can give back to the industry.
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If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void
