Barack Obama Quotes
I just want to repeat that there's nothing that we've proposed that would make it harder for you to purchase a firearm.
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The whole Hollywood thing where people want to put me into this 'quirky-fashionista, daughter of' category makes me mad because it's promoting something that I don't believe in, and it's not who I am.
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To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.
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The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
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Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
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Ray Bradbury published his first story 29 years before I was born. He established himself as an international writer long before I arrived. When my mom was nine months pregnant with me, my father read Bradbury aloud to her as I listened intently, in utero. And I later became his biographer.
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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
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It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
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If you can't move the audience, they don't want you.
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Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis.
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I was in better shape when I went into boot camp than when I came out.
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I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea.
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I don't think my father considered allowing a teenager to follow his dreams was necessarily good parenting, or even parenting. I think he thought I was a teenager with teenage impulses. I'm pretty sure he knew that if he just let me follow those impulses, it would wind up being very expensive and perhaps even life-endangering.
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I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me, the really effective ones are being presented by expert storytellers.
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I'm always honest.
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As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted.
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Find your center and stay there. It will allow you to live your life to its maximum.
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In the past, it wasn't any big deal for people with talent to hang out together. Now we have the celebrity age, which has made a lot of things harder to do.
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I just want to repeat that there's nothing that we've proposed that would make it harder for you to purchase a firearm.
