Barack Obama Quotes
But history tells us that true progress is only possible where governments exist to serve their people, and not the other way around.
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I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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I was raised looking at women who were strong, and they weren't really into playing race cards or playing gender cards. I didn't grow up around women who were like, 'Well, let the boys do that, and let the girls do that.' I didn't really see that in my house.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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I'm completely in love with the idea of love.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
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The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.
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Performing on stage is what I've done since I was a kid and it's where the passion that has started from the very beginning for me, and that's what I'm going to enjoy.
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Our comedies are not to be laughed at.
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It was surreal to play opposite Angela Lansbury and Elaine Stritch, Bernadette Peters and Catherine Zeta-Jones. There was so much to learn just from watching them, and it was an honor to share the stage with women who have accomplished what they have.
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'Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the billions. 'We the people' affect the making and quality of most of our culture, but not our art.'
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Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.
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I'm more into MMA than any other sport. I watch a lot of the UFC fights. I have since it first came onto the scene.
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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
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I have been in Washington for a while now, and most things don't surprise me. The fact that twenty 6-year-olds were gunned down in the most violent fashion possible and this town couldn't do anything about it was stunning to me.
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But history tells us that true progress is only possible where governments exist to serve their people, and not the other way around.
