Barack Obama Quotes
And we’ll work to strengthen families by removing the financial deterrents to marriage for low-income couples, and do more to encourage fatherhood - because what makes you a man isn’t the ability to conceive a child; it’s having the courage to raise one.
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Funny is an attitude.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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There is no sin except stupidity.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.
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I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
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I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
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I've done a lot of costume drama and theatre - the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period.
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If God has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace; if He has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him.
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Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.
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After a point of time, when you get success and fame, money and everything, the purpose of life has to be redefined. For me, I think that purpose is to build bridges. Artists can do that very easily, more than politicians.
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And we’ll work to strengthen families by removing the financial deterrents to marriage for low-income couples, and do more to encourage fatherhood - because what makes you a man isn’t the ability to conceive a child; it’s having the courage to raise one.
