Barack Obama Quotes
We have greater awareness of where we're falling short than we used to. Just take the example of community police relations.Barack Obama
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
D. A. Pennebaker -
I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.
Ian Anderson -
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
Walter Scott -
In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I don't know if I can prepare for what's to come because I don't know what will.
Daisy Ridley -
I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
Ian Mckellen
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Samuel Johnson -
The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.
Paolo Bacigalupi -
You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.
Patrick Kane -
I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.
Idina Menzel -
OKCupid's model is almost entirely based on advertising, which is the way most online media is monetized these days, whether it's the news or whether it's sports, and we think online dating is going to evolve in the exact same way.
Sam Yagan
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When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.
Patrick Demarchelier -
Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.
Gary Hamel -
We got to know the competition very well. In the '50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets.
Orville Redenbacher -
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
Edmund Burke -
Maybe we adults idealize our own red-rover days, the hot afternoons spent playing games that required no coaches, eating foods that involved no nutrition, getting dirty in whole new ways and rarely glancing in the direction of a screen of any kind.
Nancy Gibbs -
I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
Barbra Streisand
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I'm really still a child of the Forties. I still think about it a lot, about the repercussions of armed conflict. Until 1953 we had rationing. We couldn't buy meat, we couldn't buy pleasurable goods like cigarettes and sweets. I didn't starve - my family were lucky - but I knew what it was like standing in line waiting for foodstuffs.
Eric Burdon -
There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.
Christopher Hampton -
Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
Andre Gide -
The earth shall be left to no one.
Yunus Emre -
Making other people happy is what brings me happiness. I have a blessed life, and I have always shared my life's gifts with others. I will continue to use my voice and my life as a catalyst for encouraging people to help make a difference in the lives of others.
Oprah Winfrey -
We have greater awareness of where we're falling short than we used to. Just take the example of community police relations.
Barack Obama