Barack Obama Quotes
There's nobody to guide through the process of becoming a man... to explain to them the meaning of manhood. And that's a recipe for disaster.
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I bought a girl roses once.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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Marriage has always been a state and local issue.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it.
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I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
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Irish mythology is gorgeous, and so are the fairies, but they are very misrepresented in the U.K. They are not little creatures with wings.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.
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I was doing quite well in Malaysia... Everyone was so excited about my music, and they started accepting me as an artist.
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
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Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.
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A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.
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You know, Democratic and Republican administrations alike have supported individuals and regimes that have slaughtered millions across the globe. And they need to be held accountable for that.
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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
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Governments follow their people. A great deal has to do with the vision of the leadership of governments. They have a vision, and they translate that to their people and to their counterparts in other countries. You can fulfill and achieve a great deal if you get along well as individuals, as people, as persons.
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Ideas are nothing. They're irrelevant. If you think your idea is so important, you're doomed. The reality is if you don't like one idea, I've got 299 more. If I tell you my idea, and you can execute better against that idea than I can - great; I get to play a terrific game.
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The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.
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But sometimes living in denial was the only way to keep a man from going on a killing spree.
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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
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There's nobody to guide through the process of becoming a man... to explain to them the meaning of manhood. And that's a recipe for disaster.
