Barack Obama Quotes
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There's something about these steps [in Oval Office] and thinking about everybody who's walked here and all the business that's been done here.
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To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.
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With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.
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I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.
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The eyes of the world are fixed on the U.S. to see if we have the political courage and moral sense to solve our debt crisis.
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In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.
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Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.
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Fuseproject was founded in 1999, and the notion behind it, which is alive and kicking today, is fusing different disciplines. Our teams are absolutely incredible at their own discipline, but most importantly, they're incredible at partnering with each other.
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I used to play hooky from school so I could watch cooking shows.
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Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about.
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Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.
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I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.
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American society loves to prop people up and then take them down.
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For 'Chapters', I decided to let go of my insecurities, found myself some talented R&B producers, and worked with them.
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Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process... has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas.
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In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.
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Most actors are starving. Most of us are walking around with a flashlight and tweezers looking for evidence. When you have someone that actually writes an acting role, it's rare.
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This is the hardest part for me. Just the waiting - the waiting to fight. The work has all been done, and you just have to wait.
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Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there's just no shortcut - you just have to do it.
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. . . Orpheus struck dumb with hindsight.
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There's something about these steps [in Oval Office] and thinking about everybody who's walked here and all the business that's been done here.
