Barack Obama Quotes
As the wealthiest nation on Earth, I believe the United States has a moral obligation to lead the fight against hunger and malnutrition, and to partner with others.
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We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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I created 'The Guild' because nobody was offering me the roles I thought I could do best at in Hollywood.
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.
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Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.
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I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.
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Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.
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I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.
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I've sung background for a couple of bands.
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I would not invest in any shoe that is too trendy.
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When you realize that the uncut 'Porgy and Bess' started me off, that I'd have the opportunity to do a ton of 'Stoppard,' 'Hairspray,' that I'm able to do 'Il Trittico' at the Met – how do I top that?
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I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.
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Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
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History proves that the white man is a devil.
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When I was 15 years old, I left school and became a professional boxer.
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If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air.
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The ground which a colored man occupies in this country is, every inch of it, sternly disputed.
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Germany is our second biggest trade partner after China, but some time ago it was first. China is developing rapidly and has already become the world's largest economy in terms of purchasing power parity. At any rate, as you know, on 8 October China was recognised as such, but naturally the US economy is much bigger overall for the time being.
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If you do what you believe in, you’re strong. It’s when you don’t do what you believe in that you’re weak. And we are strong.
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We can act as if there were a God; feel as if we were free; consider Nature as if she were full of special designs; lay plans as if we were to be immortal; and we find then that these words do make a genuine difference in our moral life.
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As the wealthiest nation on Earth, I believe the United States has a moral obligation to lead the fight against hunger and malnutrition, and to partner with others.
