Barack Obama Quotes
If you like your healthcare plan, you'll be able to keep your healthcare plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.
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The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
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We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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I was tested against the best.
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Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.
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I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more horrific because they've had the release of the laugh before it.
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One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.
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Intolerance is alien to Hinduism.
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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With 'Richard,' I was excited to make this film with such an amazing role for an actor. Play a wide range of emotion and really invest myself in the character.
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Learn to love being black.
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I always thought golf was a game reserved for the rich and the elite... But it's a misconception. It's a highly technical game, and it's a game that you can play and master alone. You require sharp skills for it, and you can play the game alone.
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A man does not automatically become a public figure because he happens to build an empire out of chicken fat.
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If you like your healthcare plan, you'll be able to keep your healthcare plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.
