Barack Obama Quotes
I was elected because I believed in what we call "grassroots politics," politics from the bottom up, not the top down.
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I must never write when I do not want to write.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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Not everyone can be successful selling fashion at $25,000 for a wedding outfit. Certain designers are able to do that. And there is only a certain amount of consumers who can do that. The real opportunity is in that $25 garment.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.
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On certain, delicate subjects, bringing in outsiders to talk about values is pertinent because pupils listen to them more attentively.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
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Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.
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I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.
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I like very much to put on fashion shows.
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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.
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I find often in Hollywood there are many people who play themselves really beautifully. And certain parts are not that dissimilar from who you are as a person.
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I had heard all sorts of stories about Woody Allen's directing - directorial approach. And some of them turned out to be myth, but one of them was that he doesn't rehearse, and another was that he doesn't really direct. If he doesn't like it... he cuts it out of the movie or even replaces you. And he doesn't talk to you.
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The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
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And there is such a thing as a decathlon high. It's like a rock rolling down hill, picking up momentum. You get better and better.
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When not only gold but all commodities are available for the redemption of the paper currency, its volume is limited only by the value of all the wealth of the country, and it can never become insecure up to this limit.
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Even growing up, I was always the helper-outer, the sous-chef to my parents.
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I was elected because I believed in what we call "grassroots politics," politics from the bottom up, not the top down.
