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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It's not uncool to worry about people who seem like they're going on the wrong path. There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.
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I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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I had done a couple of auditions for 'Amistad' and didn't feel it was going to go any further - and then the call came about heading to Los Angeles to work with Steven Spielberg. It was surreal: exciting, challenging, overwhelming.
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There's a difference between maliciously offending somebody - on purpose - and somebody being offended by...truth. If you're offended by the truth, that's your problem. I have no obligation to not offend you if I'm speaking the truth. The truth is supposed to offend you; that's how you know you don't got it.
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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.
