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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When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.
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It took years and a lot of diligence on my part. But I've formed my own thing, and now I get people who are surprised to find out he's my dad. I dreamed that would happen, and it has: I'm no longer introduced to people as Brian Williams' daughter.
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For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society's method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.
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I'm really awkward when people recognize me. I'm not good at it, and for the most part it hadn't happened to me until 'True Blood,' and then, all of a sudden, it started happening all the time.
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Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.
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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.
