Barack Obama Quotes
I'm suspicious of too much certainty in the pursuit of understanding just because I think people are limited in their understanding.
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EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!
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I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.
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I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
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In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.
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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.
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A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
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Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.
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I love books.
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And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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In the days when I was the big hero, the money wasn't much. Nobody made anything on television in those days.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor.
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Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.
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I think it's the most responsible thing you can do, to have kids. It's not something to be taken lightly. I don't have that gene that people have to replicate.
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I like to watch retarded people have sex, am I alone?
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I'm suspicious of too much certainty in the pursuit of understanding just because I think people are limited in their understanding.
