Barack Obama Quotes
Citizenship demands a sense of common purpose; participation in the hard work of self-government; an obligation to serve to our communities.
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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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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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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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I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.
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I almost always start with setting! I have to know the world before I know how to populate it. I have a tendency to play with doors - between life and death, human and monster, mundane and magic - and with 'ADSOM,' I knew I wanted to play with the physical doors between worlds.
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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.
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I don't photograph for other people. I love an audience, mind you. Once I've got them there, then I love an audience. Not a big audience, though. I'd rather please ten people I respect than ten million I don't. But I don't play to an audience, I do it for myself.
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All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile.
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A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 am and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 pm to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished even before lunch.
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There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability.
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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.
