Barack Obama Quotes
One of the things I think I can bring to the presidency is to make government and public service cool again.
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We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.
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I grew up as a country boy.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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Islam is antiauthoritarian, sex-positive monotheism.
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Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
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Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
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Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.
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You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'
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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
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When Bob Wilson left the BBC for ITV, I got the 'Football Focus' job, and it went from there. It came completely out of the blue, but the fact I had a high profile certainly helped.
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If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.
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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.
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It would definitely be fun to do a musical one day.
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No one in the whole movie ever asks anyone, Did you write this letter' Part of the reason is that no one wants to hear that it isn't for them. As soon as they read it, they want it to be theirs.
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That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.
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Everything in life is a risk! I mean, you walk out onto the street and it's a risk! Don't you think?
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The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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I have never analyzed a presidential election as much as I did the Trump-Clinton race of 2016.
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You have to think of your career the way you look at the ocean, deciding which wave you're gonna take and which waves you're not gonna take. Some of the waves are going to be big, some are gonna be small, sometimes the sea is going to be calm. Your career is not going to be one steady march upward to glory.
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I was feeling like a real misfit in middle school, but when I saw 'Wicked,' it made me feel really cool for being different... and you can carve that in stone!
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One of the things I think I can bring to the presidency is to make government and public service cool again.
