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We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people w

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but dont want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential. – Barack Obama

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To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. – Barack Obama

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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement. – Barack Obama

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We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent. – Barack Obama

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I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly. – Gustave Flaubert

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If you start to disrespect the character youre playing, or play it too much for laughs, that can work for a sketch, it will sell some gags, but its all technique. Its like watching a juggler – you can be impressed by it, but its not going to touch you in any way. – Steve Coogan

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I dont wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work. – Pearl S. Buck

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Its hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell em theyre irresponsible and lazy. And whos gonna wanna do that? Because thats what poverty is, ladies and gentlemen. In this country, you can succeed if you get educated and work hard. Period. Period. – Bill OReilly

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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals separated from law and justice he is the worst. – Aristotle

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People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. Ive got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. Theres no future in it. – Sparky Anderson

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I certainly know that this relationship could not have continued the way it did, when I was at the Pentagon and the president was obviously at the White House, without Betty. – Monica Lewinsky

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Sometimes you dont know who you can and cannot trust. I still learn that over and over again. – Demi Lovato

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