Barack Obama Quotes
If American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain when I'm in the White House, I'll put on a comfortable pair of shoes myself. I'll walk on that picket line with you as President of the United States of America, because workers deserve to know that somebody is standing in their corner.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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I don't think what I look like is relevant.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.
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I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.
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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
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I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
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If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.
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Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.
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When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend.
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Basically, I get paid to be crazy. I get paid to believe I'm someone else, live in a completely false reality, and believe it's real. And that's a little scary. And I do it to the best of my ability. But it's kind of like swimming out to sea. You have to leave enough energy to swim back, and sometimes you get scared you swam too far.
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Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
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In the first English class I attended, Prof. E. H. Elliot, addressing me, asked if I really belonged to the Junior B. A. class, and I had to answer him in the affirmative. He then proceeded to inquire how old I was.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less food and less portions.
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I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.
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I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.
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NBC's pilot season of 1994 is legendary in the business. In a world where failure is commonplace, we midwifed the birth of both 'Friends' and 'ER'. While 'ER' came essentially out of the blue, we'd been casting around for a 'Friends'-like show for some time at the network.
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If American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain when I'm in the White House, I'll put on a comfortable pair of shoes myself. I'll walk on that picket line with you as President of the United States of America, because workers deserve to know that somebody is standing in their corner.
