Barack Obama Quotes
There's something about these steps and thinking about everybody who's walked here and all the business that's been done here.
Quotes to Explore
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
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No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
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If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.
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There's still racism. Western Europe... has taken the native cultures of the Americas, the African cultures, the Asian civilization and lumped them together into The Others.
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The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it because I think I have a weird barometer in the sense that some of the characters I've cared about the most in movies are characters that are often thought of as despicable.
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You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
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A personal game-changer was when Ridley Scott cast me as King John, the King of England, for 'Robin Hood.'
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It seems every morning I wake up to face a list of 20 things to do, with time only to do 10, and somehow I always wind up squishing in 30.
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Whether I'm a bit of an old soul or not, I am who I am, and that doesn't change, whether I'm with adults or with my friends.
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I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.
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Getting some distance allowed me to develop a hunger for India and to come back and explore it in a way I wouldn't have had I been living here. And that probably made me more political as well.
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I didn't even know what a beauty editor was. It sounds like a fictional job if you think about it. You get to test lipstick and perfume and nail polish legitimately and call it work.
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I have made a promise to myself that I will have no limitations as an actor. I have realised I have to pay attention to the commercials or the business aspect of cinema, but deep inside, I am purely an artiste.
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Even such is time, that takes in trustOur youth, our joys, our all we have,And pays us but with age and dust;Who in the dark and silent grave,When we have wandered all our ways,Shuts up the story of our days.But from this earth, this grave, this dust,My God shall raise me up, I trust!
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The thing that strikes you most about being a soldier in a war zone and in action to the small extent that I was, when actually people start shooting, which happened to me a couple of times, everything goes on automatic and there's a feeling of tremendous elevation and even elation.
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I love producing. I am loving doing that. I think that is my most natural space in the business. I just love producing or editing and that's where I thrive.
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I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.
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There's always beauty, if you know where to look.
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Glamour can be something very simple. Glamour can be how you wash your face, how you make your breakfast.
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There's something about these steps and thinking about everybody who's walked here and all the business that's been done here.
