Barack Obama Quotes
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When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.
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The Obama economy has led to the lowest labor force participation since 1978.
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Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
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I like the idea of acting. Of all these things I've done, sometimes I think I've done well, and sometimes I think I didn't do well, but they are more cameos, and I come in and be crazy.
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I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.
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There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing.
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Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.
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It is a big responsibility to headline on pay-per-view.
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People know me for my love of food, but I have so much more I want to share. Our show's going to be all about taking a bigger bite out of life. I want people to see themselves in this show because life is full of messes and successes, and getting there is half the fun.
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Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have.
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When I started working out, it wasn't about weight loss; I was going through a really hard time and needed an emotional release. Once you start getting in the tabloids claiming you have fake body parts, then it's like, 'Okay, I made it. Now I'm really working out.'
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Just having what's important, to have people around you to support and take care of you. That's the most important thing when you are a professional athlete.
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I feel music is another kind of literature.
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Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices.
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Since most startups operate at a break-neck pace, with a concept to prove or a product to launch within a rapidly shortening runway of financing, company culture often gets shoved aside. This is a big, big mistake: Nobody serious about their business should put culture in the corner.
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I don't get on stage and give a social diatribe. I am a performer and an entertainer.
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Why can't I make up my own characters and paint the people I want to see in the world? I'm depicting the many people who existed in history but whose presence was never documented.
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As you develop, the people around you develop. As you progress, the world progresses with you to a certain degree.
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I'm going into my first Olympics, whereas people I'm racing against are going into their third and fourth and probably last Olympics. So there's more pressure on them to perform. I've still got a whole future ahead of me. I am not even the Olympic champ.
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Beijing is an example of [families were displaced for the Olympics]. Something like 10,000 families were moved out.
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The Olympics have been an amazing part of Los Angeles' history. In many ways in 1932, they put us on the map when people didn't even know where Los Angeles was. In 1984, they were the first profitable Olympics of the modern era.
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You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.
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I've been practicing. I bowled a 129, It was like special olympics or something.
