Barack Obama Quotes
As I've said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis' future.
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.
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I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.
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Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.
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I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country, including Gambia, except when those crimes translate into the crimes that I have to investigate.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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The best cure for a hangover is something one straight man can't do for another straight man.
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Not counting the brand of Sunni Islam practised by the so-called Islamic State, there is probably no religion in the world that comes in for more flak than Scientology.
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Engvall is in the park flying a kite with his son.
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My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.
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There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
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As I've said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis' future.
