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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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If we do not act quickly, Jaxport will fall behind competitors on the East Coast - and the economic engine that has driven this community for the past decade will be put in danger.
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Relax! Life is beautiful!
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
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I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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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.
