Barack Obama Quotes
I do make sure that I've got people who are experts that are helping me make the best decisions possible.
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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
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I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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I just lip gloss! It doesn't matter if it's $2 or $30.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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What there is no dispute about is whether or not China is a currency manipulator. They are a currency manipulator. They actively intervene every single day to keep the value of their currency less than it would be against the dollar than if it floated freely. We think. Even China barely disputes that.
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I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.
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I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.
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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.
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Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.
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My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.
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When we talk about music, we talk about our reaction to it. One person might say that music is so poetic, while another says it's all mathematics. Yet another might say it's about sensuality, and so on. That's all true. But music is not just one of these things. It's everything all at once.
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The Army confronted racial integration when it was still unpopular in society. It has been struggling to more fully integrate women. Its troops, after all, reflect society.
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You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
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After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix and picking up the Woodstock soundtrack. Listening to his version of 'Star Spangled Banner' and 'Purple Haze.' My brother played acoustic guitar and, idolising him, I thought, 'I'm going to get a guitar.'
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Smudge your eyeliner. It creates a smoky effect.
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Since we've done that type of work [ voiceover], we know how isolating it can be, and we wanted to make the actors more comfortable.
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I have just been refining the room in which I sit, yet I sometimes doubt that a writer should refine or improve his workroom by so much as a dictionary: one thing leads to another and the first thing you know he has a stuffed chair and is fast asleep in it.
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I do make sure that I've got people who are experts that are helping me make the best decisions possible.
