Barack Obama Quotes
History reminds us that walls can be torn down. But the task is never easy. True partnership and true progress requires constant work and sustained sacrifice. They require sharing the burdens of development and diplomacy; of progress and peace. They require allies who will listen to each other, learn from each other and, most of all, trust each other.
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.
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We kind of like the new Outkast.
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Race differences show up early in life.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.
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You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
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No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.
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Survival is the main objective. There are going to be some awful days, I know that from my background in the sport.
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David Lynch's 'Fire Walk With Me' has a scene in it that scared me so bad that I don't remember it. I blocked the memory out - repeatedly! I've seen the film two or three times, and I can never remember what it is that scares me.
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The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.
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It may be that Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf were sitting around fretting about their Amazon reviews or their pre-pub whatever, but I kind of doubt it. I don't think that's how the work probably got made.
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We must show there is good in society. If you read the newspapers, you think there are only crooks in this world, but that's not true.
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History reminds us that walls can be torn down. But the task is never easy. True partnership and true progress requires constant work and sustained sacrifice. They require sharing the burdens of development and diplomacy; of progress and peace. They require allies who will listen to each other, learn from each other and, most of all, trust each other.
