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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The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless.
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I think to a certain extent, Clinton may have expected as the senior president that Obama would've reached out to him and asked for his council; he's done that very little. So, I think the relationship has not been good over the years.
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When people recognise me they just kind of go 'Hi how are you,' really kind of cool you know.
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I was in my senior year of high school when I read 'Notes From Underground' by Dostoyevsky, and it was an exhilarating discovery. I hadn't known up until that moment that fiction could be like that. Fiction could say these things, could be unseemly, could be unsettling and distressing in that particular way, that immediate and urgent way.
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'Wait, Wait' has been great. The humor is there, and we get to do a lot of action.
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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.
