Barack Obama Quotes
Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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I've never been a partier.
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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There's no problem with fans and bands. There's a problem with the economics of the outside disruption of the industry.
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I believe in aging gracefully.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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Actors, after all, dream.
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I do a lot of TV stuff, but I also turn a lot down - it's got to be an adventure.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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Senator Wyden continues to be the Senate's truest champion of an open Internet.
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My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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Evil report carries further than any applause.
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Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself. I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette, but if I do, then within that, I can be creative.
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The Catholic Church is one of the oldest, largest and richest institutions on earth, with a following 1.2 billion strong, and change does not come naturally.
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Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.
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I think, a lot of time, when I'm making art, I'm trying to get into a state of childlike play, where I'm not self-conscious; I'm not worried about what the outcome is going to be. I'm just having fun.
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People are people, and I get a bit annoyed that the music business only focuses in on the big metropolises. I find that people that don't live in big cities are just as likely to enjoy music as people that do live in big cities.
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A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice.
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I don't know of many people who've done sex research with an eye toward people saying sex is bad for you, except for the promiscuity and cervical cancer link - which is actually a valid discovery.
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Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes.
