Barack Obama Quotes
I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.
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I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.
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We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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I like to wear shoes that are cool but also practical. The same goes for bags. Your bag is a big deal in New York. You can't just carry around a little clutch, because you don't have a car or anywhere to stash things during the day, so you need to carry your whole life with you. That's why I like big, chunky bags with lots of compartments.
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Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.
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Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.
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I had this dream that I was going to come to New York and be a writer.
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If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student.
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I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.
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It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
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If my company spends money, it should be disclosed to the shareholders and how it was spent. With my personal money, I can do anything I want. But company money should be disclosed.
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What's really good is African drum music.
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If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.
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People think that Israelis are mean, evil people who only want to hurt Arabs all day.
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I believe in my music.
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.
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Hollywood forgets easily. I want to be fulfilled and challenged.
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The ruling in the Paula Jones case is so silly.
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We went through all the scenes and they became kind of funny and they expanded a little bit and because it seemed to be working so well in the movie, they added a couple of things later on in the movie and that's how it turned out.
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When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.
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I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.
