Barack Obama Quotes
We will stand against violence and intimidation. We will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings.
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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
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A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that.
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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I've been a speaker. I've been a majority leader. I've been a minority leader. Those are the sort of things I don't need any more.
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We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to... until they really bite us in the butt.
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I'd been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn't really. You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies.
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Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
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To be able to make decisions and see them come to fruition and feel the excitement around them, what it generates within the company, how the artists get motivated - that's the most rewarding part; feeling I can be a catalyst for an artistic experience for our artists and for the public.
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Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It's the tiredest, most trite and worked-over subject in the world, and that was why it appealed to me, because I wanted to do something really new and different about something that had been worked over all these centuries, and I think I did.
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Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.
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We filmed one scene on the beach and there was definitely weird energy around, and we were followed around by a white owl to several different locations, and little things like that, or certain mishaps would happen and you'd have to wonder what that was about.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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The Ecuadorean and Latin American press is not like the European or North American press, which has some professional ethics. They are used to being above the law, to blackmail, to extort.
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For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.
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We will stand against violence and intimidation. We will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings.
