Barack Obama Quotes
The fact that there is a robust debate in Congress is good. The fact that the debate sometimes seems unanchored to facts is not so good.
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I have to wear two sports bras when I do my cardio. It takes a lot to hold these puppies up!
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The want of money is the root of all evil.
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It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
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You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
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I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.
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I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.
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'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.
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This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
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Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better.
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I don't consider myself a fashion designer.
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The more you know, the less you are impressed by Foucault.
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There's a real moral imperative in being an organization that takes the time to sit and listen to the customers and the people they're serving.
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As a man of colour, I've spent my life asking people to see me for who I am. With Obama in the White House, it feels like people have finally caught up to where I've been most of my life.
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Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later.
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The fact that there is a robust debate in Congress is good. The fact that the debate sometimes seems unanchored to facts is not so good.
