Barack Obama Quotes
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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The incredible cinematography makes 'A Walk to Beautiful' almost like a poem; there is a tenderness on display that seems to emanate from the camera. There is also great sensitivity to the women whose stories are being told - never did I have a sense of the subjects being exploited.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Happiness is an inside job.
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Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
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Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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The one thing I do know is that I'm the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
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I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.
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I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another.
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I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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I was so naive in radio technique that I knew nothing about timing. I would write pages on Honus Wagner and then get only half through by the time the show ended. I eventually learned, but there was nobody there to school me.
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My first guitar was a Gretsch 6120, and I just loved listening to artists like Elvis, Chuck Berry and Stray Cats.
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We pay taxes, and we help the city coffers.
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Richard M. Helms, the first director of Central Intelligence to rise from the ranks, was fond of saying that the CIA had been founded to make sure that there would never be another Pearl Harbor. Underlying this mission impossible was the wishful supposition that an America that knew everything could prevent anything.
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I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House.
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Islam has always been a part of America's story.
