Barack Obama Quotes
I've said many times around the world that like any government, like any country, like, any set of human institutions, we have our flaws. We've operated imperfectly. There are times we've made mistakes.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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Working with Tyler Perry has been a wonderful experience. Everything he touches turns to gold, it seems like.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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Stay true to your own voice, and don't worry about needing to be liked or what anybody else thinks. Keep your eyes on your own paper.
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When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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I would really love to collaborate with Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.; artists that kind of make sense with me vocally. And in terms of style, I'm a very visual artist. I really love Pharell. I love people that really care about drums, and I like beat-heavy.
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Samsung has drastically altered the rule that big screens mean huge phones. Even this smaller of the new Galaxy S models has a larger screen than the biggest iPhone, but it's much narrower and easier to hold and to slip into a pocket.
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The funniest people I know were, not necessarily troubled, but had a harder time in school or were shy or picked on or something like that. I think that you rely on it. 'Well, I don't think I'm cute and no one wants to hang out with me - I'd better start trying to make people laugh.' I think there's an element of that in there.
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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
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The flamenco of the Gypsy has nothing to do with the flamenco for tourists. Real flamenco is like sex.
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I'm a guy who can play all three downs, and I excel in all areas of the game.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add to our store of dreams; we are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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I've said many times around the world that like any government, like any country, like, any set of human institutions, we have our flaws. We've operated imperfectly. There are times we've made mistakes.
