Barack Obama Quotes
We had a farewell dinner for some of my senior staff, and generally everybody likes to talk about how cool I was.
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I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.
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Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.
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By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you're aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.
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Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
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In my view, Indian Railways has immense untapped potential.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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I think Hugh Laurie is awesome. You just want to loathe that guy in 'House' because he is not a friendly person, but somehow or another, he is profoundly charming.
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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 think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.
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The best way to catch my attention is to throw a Twinkie near my face.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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Power and speed be hands and feet.
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'Muslim' is not a political party. 'Muslim' is not a single culture. Muslims go to war with each other. There are more Muslims in India, Russia and China than in most Muslim-majority nations. 'Muslim' is not a homogenous entity.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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I have been listening a lot to The Carpenters and Neil Diamond, Elton John, and thinking, like, 'God, it'd be great to write a sort of subversive, alternative ballad,' like Lou Reed does so well with 'Perfect Day.' And I really loved 'Video Games' - at the time, it hadn't really got as big, but it's a classic song; you can't deny it.
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I want to make 20, 30, 50 studio records.
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Albert Camus's 'La Peste' - 'The Plague' - had an enormous impact on me when I read it in high school French class, and I chose my senior yearbook quote from it. In college, I wrote a philosophy class paper on Camus and Sartre, and again chose my yearbook quote from 'La Peste.'
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I don't think it's good to be sentimental, so I try not to be.
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I will go a little further than that, and say I will see you there where I go.
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We had a farewell dinner for some of my senior staff, and generally everybody likes to talk about how cool I was.
