Barack Obama Quotes
The campaign was a more significant training ground than I think people give it credit for. By the time I got here, I think I had a pretty good sense of what was required. But the circumstances in which I came in were different than most executives, right? The enterprise was in the midst of a major crisis.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.
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I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.
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There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
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I eat a lot of chocolate.
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I became a dancer late and an actor late.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.
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I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic.
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I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.
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People don't listen to one radio station. On iTunes you can mix different worlds and bring country and pop and folk and live music together with a mass audience. I could have sung 'Easy' in a country way but I just sang it how I sing. I think it's a really nice blend.
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China and India are feeding their people for the first time in human history due to free markets, and the Left knows that, and it gets them nervous.
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The campaign was a more significant training ground than I think people give it credit for. By the time I got here, I think I had a pretty good sense of what was required. But the circumstances in which I came in were different than most executives, right? The enterprise was in the midst of a major crisis.
