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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I never ever Google myself. That way madness lies.
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Honesty works against you in the entertainment field. I try to be a journalist and a documentarian, but that doesn't mean that people are going to embrace it at the moment. The point is I'm leaving the mark of my hysteria and the political hysteria, and that's it... I can only do what I do.
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I was always worried with comedy - what if I came to work and I wasn't in a funny mood? That hasn't been an issue.
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Everything has to be perfect in my business. Because when there is a mistake I am the one who is responsible.
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I went to college and law school with the help of the GI Bill. That experience moved me so much, I dedicated the rest of my life to serving this great country and helping others succeed.
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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.
