Barack Obama Quotes
We have to acknowledge the progress we made, but understand that we still have a long way to go. That things are better, but still not good enough.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.
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I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.
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'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.
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I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
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Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
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I'm a dork!
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Issues to do with disability, mental health and not being neurotypical often affect many genuine teenagers but are rarely reflected in the fiction they read.
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The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert.
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Mining created Chile. The story of men who go down into the mountain and chip away at minerals in the darkness and then suffer an accident that leaves them at the mercy of that darkness is part of the DNA of Chile, an integral part of the country's history.
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I think what 'The Hobbit' and Middle-earth deal in are quite universal and timeless themes of honour and love and friendship... so they're things that do resonate with people.
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We simply write the kind of music we enjoy most and hope that our audience will enjoy it too.
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I love to see technology from a design perspective and vice versa. I am a 'Desigineer.'
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We have to acknowledge the progress we made, but understand that we still have a long way to go. That things are better, but still not good enough.
