Barack Obama Quotes
To restore America's competitiveness, we must recruit a new generation of science and technology leaders by investing in diversity.
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I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
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The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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I came across 'The Song of Achilles' by Madeline Miller in one of the most romantic ways one can find a story. I was digging through a pile of used books at my local library when my hand gravitated toward its brilliant teal and glistening gold cover.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Happiness is an inside job.
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I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
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Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down.
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When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.
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Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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I pretty much preach, teach and nag.
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My favourite book in the world is 'Neuromancer' by William Gibson.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym.
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I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
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What I really wanted to know, though, was what it was like to be a geisha? Where do you sleep? What do you eat? How do you have your hair done?
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Sometimes snakes can’t slough. They can’t burst their old skin. Then they go sick and die inside the old skin, and nobody ever sees the new pattern. It needs a real desperate recklessness to burst your old skin at last. You simply don’t care what happens to you, if you rip yourself in two, so long as you do get out.
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It really doesn't take brains to be a politician as much as it takes stomach. Both would be nice, but in America we have accepted diminishing returns in this arena.
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Profit or perish... There are only two ways to make money: increase sales and decrease costs.
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To restore America's competitiveness, we must recruit a new generation of science and technology leaders by investing in diversity.
