Barack Obama Quotes
I want to reduce America's deficit by cutting spending that we don't need but also by asking the wealthy to do a little bit more so that we can invest in things like research and technology that are the key to a 21st century economy.
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I'm cranky.
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Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.
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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend.
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For a long time, I said I didn't want to model. I was a dancer.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.
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I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
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I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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I love snacks, but I'm kind of growing out of them. I'm getting into fruit and Clif Bars.
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When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.
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If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effects, go on taking it. But if it's not working, or not working well enough, or if you have side effects you don't like, talk to your doctor about an alternative approach.
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At one point I had to shove as much food in my body as possible to pack on calories. My trainer wanted me to do six meals a day and not go two hours without eating. If I would cheat on eating one day, I could tell - I'd drop a few pounds.
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Nothing is less suspenseful than a threat that threatens the maker of the threat at least as much as the subject of the threat. Congress hasn't learned this yet, but America has learned it over and over.
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America is much better than the leadership we have in Washington.
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My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.
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The highest art... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood.
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I want to reduce America's deficit by cutting spending that we don't need but also by asking the wealthy to do a little bit more so that we can invest in things like research and technology that are the key to a 21st century economy.
