Barack Obama Quotes
If you don’t have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters. If you don’t have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. You make a big election about small things.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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I don't care much about hardware. Nintendo games are some of the best games in the world, and from a more graphical standpoint, the Wii can't do what a PS3 or 360 can do.
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I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I thought I would be a teacher, but I didn't really think about it in any practical way.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.
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People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.
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I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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I love Jonathan Richman - I love a lot of his music, and the thing I really like about him is his attitude. He seems very happy, and the way he performs is like, 'Don't worry, everybody, just get into it. I'm just having fun; I like when you guys are having fun.'
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I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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I think that casting is probably the most important thing in television production.
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We have a failing Medicaid system, and you know who that's going to hurt in the end are the most vulnerable in people in our society.
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The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.
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Losing people makes you realize you've got to grab life - not put things off.
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I am not particularly religious. But I think we do face the question of where God is, why we are created and where does life go, why we exist. That sort of thing. And it is very hard to talk about it these days, because it cannot be proven. It is hard to discuss it rationally.
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It's often said that costume designers are a faceless group of people. But we can contribute to fashion in a way that might be new and different.
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If you don’t have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters. If you don’t have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. You make a big election about small things.
