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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Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men.
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In college, you had to worry about that math class or this exam that's coming up on Tuesday, but not in the professionals. You eat, sleep, and do everything related to your craft - and your craft is football. You can be at it from sunup to sundown.
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You can say a lot with pictures. It's a visual medium - and especially with animation, you can do a lot that you can't do in live action.
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I couldn't kill a chicken, I couldn't kill a cow - I was a vegetarian too at that time - so I thought, well what is there that I could kill? I couldn't kill this and I couldn't kill that.
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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.
