Barack Obama Quotes
Because Selma shows us that America is not the project of any one person. Because the single-most powerful word in our democracy is the word 'We.' 'We The People.' 'We Shall Overcome.' 'Yes We Can.' That word is owned by no one. It belongs to everyone.
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I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
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I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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Especially for me, growing up in such a small town in the middle of nowhere, the desire to be away was incredible. I wanted to see new lands, meet new people from the city, and meet people that were in much less fortunate situations than I was, so that I could be more appreciative of my present. At least I had food on the table.
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You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
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I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
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It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'
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For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.
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Some people try to cyber bully me; they try to get to me with words, but that doesn't really work.
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I'm just another guy who thinks he's smarter than he is, in a long line of them.
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I showed the grown ups my masterpiece, andI asked them if my drawing scared them. They answered why be scared of a hat? My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.
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All history is incomprehensible without Christ.
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The people who are pushing Jewish supremacism, Zionism – they are absolute evil and they are crazy. All they know is more power, and so there is a real danger, I should say, for Syria , and a danger for Iran at this point.
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Because Selma shows us that America is not the project of any one person. Because the single-most powerful word in our democracy is the word 'We.' 'We The People.' 'We Shall Overcome.' 'Yes We Can.' That word is owned by no one. It belongs to everyone.
