Barack Obama Quotes
it’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds." - Barack Obama, 44th U.S. President
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
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I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
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Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
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My plan is just to love harder than I've ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I'm an imperfect human being. Oh, and sadness - sadness is everything.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
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Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.
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Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
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I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat.
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I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.
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I have a sliding glass door on my closet, and when I slide it one way I can see all my uniforms, and the other way is all my own clothes.
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If you're really being honest with yourself when you're acting, part of it is touching the real you. You can only separate yourself so much from the character. Those vulnerable moments do touch me.
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I like the anthology concept. I wish more shows would do it.
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No one ever sowed the grain of generosity who gathered not up the harvest of the desire of his heart.
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it’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds." - Barack Obama, 44th U.S. President
