Barack Obama Quotes
To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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As his talent expands, some of his stories become pointed social commentary; some are surprisingly effective religious tracts, disguised as science fiction. Others still are nostalgic vignettes, but under it all is still Bradbury, the poet of 20th-century neurosis.
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My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
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I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier to do in a large role than in a supporting role to a male protagonist. In general, the women in a supporting role to a male protagonist - cry a lot.
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I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.
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Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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I try and work out as much as I can. When I'm working or travelling, it's tough, but when I'm at home, that time and space is sacred. I do yoga every day.
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We tend to intensely scout an area and then use our imaginations to make the best use of the geography.
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The wrestler was up there with his wife, and I actually heard her say 'Can this thing do a loopty loop?'
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The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation.
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Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
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I'm a modern man, a man for the millennium, digital and smoke-free. A diversified multicultural postmodern deconstructionist. Politically, anatomically, and ecologically incorrect.
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To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.
