Barack Obama Quotes
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I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.
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I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.
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Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10 27 atoms.
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Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that's the least objectionable to them. They're not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they'll go to bed unhappy.
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It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.
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There's a huge expanse of this continent that so seldom gets photographed.
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Why does God endow us with compassion?
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It won't be easy, that is why I have always failed where others have succeeded.
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I have a huge scarf from Hermes that I bought the day I signed my record deal. I had never had an Hermes scarf. And I ran to buy one, thinking, 'Now, this is a symbol, I need one, I need an Hermes scarf,' which actually now I'm quite embarrassed about. Most of the time I twist it so much that no one notices it, and just bundle it around me.
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The reason we shot it was that the script was geared to Las Vegas and it was something commercial that we wanted to have in the can in case Butterfly was a success and we needed a follow-up.
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I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
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Citizenship demands a sense of common purpose; participation in the hard work of self-government; an obligation to serve to our communities.
