Barack Obama Quotes
If we neglect or abandon those who are suffering in poverty ... not only are we depriving ourselves of potential opportunities for markets and economic growth, but ultimately that despair may turn to violence that turns on us.
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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
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It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.
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Darling, when you're as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know are great classics. You become their guardian.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.
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I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
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Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
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L.A. interests me, the whole band scene and relaxed carefree feel, but it does not mean you have to dress like a hippy.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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To be honest, I owned one suit before I filmed 'Mad Men' - the one suit that you have to have as an adult. Outside of that, I never really felt comfortable in a suit.
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That is what I do. I'm not a criminal.
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John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.
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I needed something to challenge myself a little more. I found fighting, and it completely fit my personality.
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I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.
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I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.
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Every scientist would like to be able to move through research faster, to spend less time and money acquiring material or disseminating it.
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I'm just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood - but not very often.
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The re-interpretation and eventually sic eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of intelligent and rational thinking for faith... are the belated objectives of practically all effective psychotherapy. The fact is, that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respectable people have escaped from these moral chains and are able to observe and think freely.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I'm playing with Bonnie Raitt. I don't have to sing it. I just have to play it. That's cool.
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If we neglect or abandon those who are suffering in poverty ... not only are we depriving ourselves of potential opportunities for markets and economic growth, but ultimately that despair may turn to violence that turns on us.
