Barack Obama Quotes
And as I said last night, my number one priority in the coming two months is to try to facilitate a transition that ensures our president-elect is successful.
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I do try to structure everything in a way that's very much like a pop song. I try to keep the arrangements really simple, just to make everything essential.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.
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I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.
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That's everybody's goal, when they come to the league, is to win a Super Bowl. That's the ultimate goal.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.
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A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.
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I used to imagine working as a White House staffer some day, so it was pretty amazing to be there... realizing another dream.
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Mostly, I just write about feelings that people can relate to. Because, yeah, I don't know who I am, and this is not my sound forever... I'm a human, so hopefully, I will always develop.
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I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.
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But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.
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No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.
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I never want to forget that I'm doing an impossible thing. How rare is it that you get to be part of something people love? It's really special. It's a very out-of-body experience to be a part of something so huge.
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.
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You couldn't always control life, just your response to it.
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Every time I put on high heels, I think: 'Well, I'll fall over today.' Almost always, I don't. Almost. But all high-heel-wearing women live in constant peril.
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And as I said last night, my number one priority in the coming two months is to try to facilitate a transition that ensures our president-elect is successful.
