Barack Obama Quotes
Those opportunity gaps begin early, often at birth. And they compound over time, becoming harder and harder to bridge, making too many young men and women feel like, no matter how hard they try, they may never achieve their dreams.
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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'Grey's Anatomy' is a very culturally diverse show.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way.
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I'm a proud family man.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.
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Im not your biggest girly girl.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
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It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
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In the U.K., we're surrounded by American accents. Anything we watch in television. We have 'How I Met Your Mother' and all these other shows here, so it's not something that's really alien to us.
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I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
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I didn't want to keep forcing myself to grind out book after book.
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I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I'm lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, 'Let's go out to dinner.'
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I've never got on with the British press because they've always given me such a hard time. Once they build a band up they just want to do people down. They shouldn't concentrate on the colour of someone's shirt they should listen to the music.
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Obviously, the competitor in you, you want to be in the top three every time in the pool.
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Those opportunity gaps begin early, often at birth. And they compound over time, becoming harder and harder to bridge, making too many young men and women feel like, no matter how hard they try, they may never achieve their dreams.
