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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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've been almost everywhere. But I've never been to the steppes of Latvia. It's something I've always wanted to do.
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And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college.
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I would meet you upon this honestly. I that was near your heart was removed therefrom To lose beauty in terror, terror in inquisition. I have lost my passion: why should I need to keep it Since what is kept must be adulterated? I have lost my sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch: How should I use them for your closer contact?
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I think the most important thing my wife Cynthia and I can do for Kristen is to teach her how to grow up to be a woman and make her own decisions. Meanwhile, we sometimes have to guide her.
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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.
