Barack Obama Quotes

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America is about.

Barack Obama

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I'm not particularly good at doodling. I'll doodle the same face over and over again.

Meg Wolitzer

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I sometimes think love is God's way of hoodwinking people into having kids. You fall in love, and all that passion goes into procreating and wanting children.

Matt Dillon

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Prayer is God's backstage pass into a personal audience with Him.

Tony Evans

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I'm used to something where you have to create an entire world, and I do like that process. I like getting the audience to believe that outside of the frame of your television set, there's a whole real world that exists that is different from your day-to-day reality.

Ronald D. Moore

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The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share.

Roy L. Smith

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There's always going to be a war going on inside of me. That's just, I think, my make-up.

Mickey Rourke

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I got my training here in Chicago at the Goodman School Of Drama, and a lot of my personal work is usually internal work and stuff. Everything else that goes on is icing on the cake - your wardrobe, your makeup, whatever else you have to do.

Michael Rooker

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At least, in this situation, I know my chances of coming back could be slim because of the young talent the Yankees do have.

Johnny Damon

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Comedy can always be taken the wrong way. If I do a bit that is meant to diffuse racism or sexism, I'm not going to avoid it on the chance that a small portion of the audience might take it the wrong way.

Doug Stanhope

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We need to demystify - get out and speak to strangers on the street.

Colin Salmon

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On 'Mystic River,' I had to cut my salary and everyone else's to get it made.

Clint Eastwood

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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Boris Yeltsin

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