Barack Obama Quotes
We have to do our best to uphold in our own lives the values that they were prepared to die for. We have to honor those who carry forward that legacy, recognizing that people cannot live in freedom unless free people are prepared to die for it.
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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I think there will be an increasing convergence between content and commerce, that it will be about following consumers instead of making consumers come to you, and I am especially excited about the various platforms that will allow more and more access to customers.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
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I want to play a psycho, something more challenging than just 'the girlfriend' part.
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In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.
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What do you mean you have my children at the police station? Why are my kids at the police station?
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It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.
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Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.
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It's much easier to make a movie with kind of stylistic pyrotechnics because you can hide behind that if there's a gap in the story.
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I believe in God, God. God, I believe in God.
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Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.
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We have to do our best to uphold in our own lives the values that they were prepared to die for. We have to honor those who carry forward that legacy, recognizing that people cannot live in freedom unless free people are prepared to die for it.
