Barack Obama Quotes
The key is whether or not we have got priorities that are working for you, as opposed to those who have been dictating the policy in Washington lately. And that's mostly lobbyists and special interests. We have got to put an end to that.
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I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'
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There is no such thing as a perfect mother.
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I work in a very contained environment, usually.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
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Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.
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It is one thing to go on stage and be funny or be in a good place in your career, but for a woman, actually facing the elements in a physical way is a very powerful thing.
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One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
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I don't have kids, but I know that you want them to follow their dreams, while at the same time, you don't want them to be sitting around, hoping that dream is just going to come. I'm sure that's hard to tell your kids.
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Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
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There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
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The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
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We owe it to American taxpayers to make sure that contracts intended for small businesses go to small businesses.
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I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician.
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The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.
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I guess I don't have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don't think I'd like it.
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I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s, early '60s - that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.
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It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.
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Like the way we get to know about the society of Korea, Iran, and other countries through their films, people will get to know about our country. Our films are a mirror of our society.
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We are, all of us, poor wretches, and those who prefer not to understand this are even worse off than the rest of us.
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I am a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.
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One of the books that has guided me in the last ten years of my life to help me to be that leader is the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh's Being Peace. He's a Vietnamese monk. He was nominated for a Peace Prize by Dr. Martin Luther King.
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The key is whether or not we have got priorities that are working for you, as opposed to those who have been dictating the policy in Washington lately. And that's mostly lobbyists and special interests. We have got to put an end to that.
