Barack Obama Quotes
We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
Barack Obama
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
Vanilla Ice
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
Karen Bender
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I am who I am.
J. B. Pritzker
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Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When I was a kid, I used to have to take the garbage out at night on Wednesdays. I lived out in the country. I'd take the garbage out, and I used to pretend that I was the only person in the whole world, except for one other person, and he was looking for me.
Taylor Kinney
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
Walt Whitman
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
Samantha Power
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
P. J. O'Rourke
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
Jack Nicklaus
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
J. B. Priestley
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
Karl Jaspers
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I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.
Yara Shahidi
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
La'Porsha Renae
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When you want something so bad it hurts,” he said quietly, “and you bury it, bury it so deep that you convince yourself it no longer matters . . . and someone tells you you can have it, it's terrifying. What if you take the chance and you're wrong? What if you let yourself feel the loss and it's this huge pain and you can't put it back in the box?
Nalini Singh
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Most of the time-and this includes naps-I'm an F-18, bro, and I will destroy you in the air, and I will deploy my ordnance to the ground.
Charlie Sheen
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Film, you get to go to other locations and live the culture for a little while. You also form a strong bond with your cast, which is a lot of fun. Plus, you only have to live with the character for a couple months at a time.
Matt Lanter
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Television is like speed chess, as you have no time and no money. It is like trying to play Grandmaster chess with a 20 minute timer. The rewards are great, though, as it moves faster and you get to see the finished results much quicker.
Dean Devlin
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We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
Barack Obama
