Barack Obama Quotes
All of us must recognise that education and innovation will be the currency of the 21st Century.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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God isn't really interested in our batting averages.
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My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom's brothers, but my mother has never set foot on the stage - she's quite shy. So it's a strange thing because people say, 'Oh, coming from acting parents,' when the idea of acting would literally make my mother just want to throw up.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
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It was only after the Grimms published two editions primarily for adults that they changed their attitude and decided to produce a shorter edition for middle-class families. This led to Wilhelm's editing and censoring many of the tales.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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I have never had a man give me money. I've always been the provider. I have always been the one who went out and earned, and I've never felt unequal in that way.
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You might call me an accidental entrepreneur.
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I do care a lot about what I wear, but in a way that is about comfort and practicality, and I always want to look like me.
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I strongly believe in the apprenticeship model because we see in a lot of countries the local education system is not providing talent that businesses need. So it is important that there is an alignment between what the companies need and the education system, so the education system can build the right programmes.
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When I was a child, my society lifted me up - though education primarily, as well as through other kinds of cultural stimulation. It wasn't just my parents or my religious community. The entire society lifted me up to the bottom rung of the ladder. Then they said, "Girl, it's up to you whether or not you climb." I don't have a problem with that. I think that is the best way to go about living.
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I remember, as a young architect, people always talked about I. M. Pei's concrete. He had a particular specification no one else knew.
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Find something you enjoy and love and you're passionate about. And then dedicate all you've got to make it a success. And if you have those two things, I think with your passion and dedication, there is nothing that you cannot accomplish.
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All of us must recognise that education and innovation will be the currency of the 21st Century.
