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 think that we've got a huge head start on things that are not easy to do: progressive streaming, to be able to stream in very high quality, even in an environment of highly variable bit rate, and to work on a big variety of devices seamlessly.
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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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All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.
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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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Surprisingly, I came closer to really knowing myself, not because I feared death, because we were always aware of it, but rather because I was always challenging myself about what had led me there and about how strong my commitment really was.
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In training everyone focuses on 90% physical and 10% mental, but in the races its 90% mental because there's very little that separates us physically at the elite level.
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It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.
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I read comics and stuff. I buy a lot of comics, a lot of films and boxsets.
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Shopmas now begins on Thanksgiving Day. Apparently, escaping the families you cannot stand to spend another minute with on Thanksgiving Day to go buy them gifts is how some Americans show their affection for one another. Weird.
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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.
