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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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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All men ought to think of Christ, because of what Christ will yet do to all men. He shall come again one day to this earth with power and glory, and raise the dead from their graves. All shall come forth at His bidding. Those who would not move when they heard the church-going bell, shall obey the voice of the Archangel and the trump of God.
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The 'natural magic' of the camera obscura anticipated Hollywood in turning the spectacle of the external world into a consumer commodity or package. (p. 146)
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Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.
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I am God! I am nothing, I'm play, I am freedom, I am life. I am the boundary, I am the peak.
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There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.
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I fell in love with New York. I moved here 25 years ago in 1984 after I lived in Paris for six years. In the 1980s, it was the place to be. Here I was able to create NARS, which I would not have been able to create if I stayed in France.
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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.
