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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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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You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue.
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Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth.
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I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.
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Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. Almsgiving is the generosity of the rich; social aid levels up social inequalities. Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.
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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.
