Barack Obama Quotes
My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy. We sometimes make mistakes. We have not been perfect.
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We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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'The Lunchbox' is the kind of cinema that is true to its word and not cluttered or corrupted by some of the mainstream pre-requisites. I love the way I make movies, but there are certain stories that need to be told in a certain way, and 'The Lunchbox' is that movie, and I'm so proud to present this movie.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.
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I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?
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Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.
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Once you see dance as a weapon - and everyone has a different weapon - it makes dance really interesting.
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It was right when you were trying to hold everything tightly under control that the wind and waves decided it was high time to show you not only how vulnerable you really were, but also how precious every single moment was.
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The U.S. might enjoy overwhelming military advantage, but its relative economic power, which in the long run is almost invariably decisive, is in decline. The interregnum after the Cold War, far from being the prelude to a new American age, was bearing the signs of what is now very visible: the emergence of a multipolar world.
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You cannot continue to succeed in the world or have a fulfilling life in the world unless you choose to use your life in the service somehow to others and give back what you have been given. That's how you keep it. That's how you get it. That's how you grow it.
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My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy. We sometimes make mistakes. We have not been perfect.
