Barack Obama Quotes
There are people in Iran who have the same aspirations as people all around the world for a better life.
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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Either you are extrovert or introvert, and so I am an introvert in that sense. I'm not a social person that wants to go to parties.
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A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.
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I travel a lot.
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My mom went through civil rights; my dad went through civil rights. My name was Kenya because they wanted to give me an African name.
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An aphorism can contain only as much wisdom as overstatement will permit.
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Baseball fans are collectively the '10th man' and needed most when team performance is shaky. When mistakes are made, there's no need to heckle your team - that's what the other side is for!
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From the explicit prohibition against the destruction of fruit trees, our sages deduced that it is all the more forbidden to destroy the fruits themselves.
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There are people in Iran who have the same aspirations as people all around the world for a better life.
