Barack Obama Quotes
Leadership isn't just legislation, that it's a matter of persuading people and giving them confidence, and bringing them together and setting a tone.
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We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.
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For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think about how far behind a child would be without access to these fundamental tools - tools that are vital to successful employment later in life - it's a travesty.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.
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I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!'
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I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
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I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.
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The most important advice you can give anyone about to appear on TV is incredibly prosaic - be yourself.
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In every death, a busy world comes to an end.
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There are people who specialise in lettering, and I've had my hand lettering made into a digital font. I picked up a copy of the 'Dandy' the other week, and I was amazed to see that it was completely lettered in my hand-lettering font. It was quite a thrill, really, having been a 'Dandy' reader years and years ago.
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Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.
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I think the worst professional advice I received was this kind of unspoken message of "sit back and wait your turn," or "sit back and wait and let other people do things."
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Leadership isn't just legislation, that it's a matter of persuading people and giving them confidence, and bringing them together and setting a tone.
