Barack Obama Quotes
As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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Apple's advantage is that it designs and builds software together, so if the software isn't excellent, it does the superlative hardware a disservice.
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Funny, how moms can tell you what to do no matter how old or big you are.
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.
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I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
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I've worked with lots of musicians - like Tina Turner - and I love when they go in front of the fitting mirror and do their thing, pose, dance. I love that moment!
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I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven't quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and they do sprout up.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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A brief short story may require only a few paragraphs after the climax. On the other hand, in his massive novel 'The World According to Garp,' John Irving's denouement consisted of 10 separate sections, each devoted to an individual character's fate and each almost a story in itself.
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Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
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A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.
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I Love your lips when they're wet with wine and red with wicked desire.
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With any villain, you have to see things from their point of view and understand that they think what they're doing will make the world a better place.
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Even if I am being conservative, I don't see how Obama can lose.
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For me, the only sources of moral values are the pursuit of understanding and the pursuit of happiness.
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As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
