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.
Nastassja Kinski -
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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We can win respect in the world only if we are strong internally and can banish poverty and unemployment from our country.
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I do, I do!. There were songs like Ryan Adams' song 'Come Pick Me Up' that was sort of part of the writing. The Patty Griffin song 'Long Ride Home' you just try and earn with your script. Most great songs are their own movie without your help. So you just try to earn them really.
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There's a tendency, when you're directing yourself, not to give the performance as much care, because you feel like there's too much focus on yourself, or that all these people are just standing around setting everything up, waiting for you.
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Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.
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I've paid my dues. It wasn't overnight success. I went to tons of casting calls and auditions... But I've got to give luck some credit.
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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.
