Barack Obama Quotes
You might not be ready for diplomacy with Beijing if you can't visit the Olympics without insulting our closest ally.
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I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.
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I'm manic-depressive, technically bi-polar II with many borderline features.
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No one put pressure on me to go to the Olympics; once I'd got the qualifying mark, I just couldn't say no.
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I remember at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Shaq always wanted me to show him steps over and over.
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It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.
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If you're going to stay in the Olympics, you've got to be entertaining and get sponsorship.
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I don't know what it means to be out there against the Olympics.
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Home has always been one of the most important things. If I don't feel at home in my space, then I feel really unmoored.
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Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.
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Olympics is everyone's dream.
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Novelists of a conservative or more purely aesthetic bent hold up better on the surface, but their novels go in and out of fashion according to relevance or irrelevance.
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How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?
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I'll never forget where I'm from. It's essential to remain humble and evolving.
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I want to be fighting for a society accountable towards its citizens.
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What has kept me focused were my kids. My biggest focus is just making sure I'm good to my babies.
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The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
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People respected my experience, they hire me, they pay me what I am worth to coach their team.
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With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early, they can take steps to avert getting sick.
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So many people that we met had some sort of connection to the [Olympics] games. Some story about how they volunteered there, or some sort of memory of it. It still is in the cultural memory and identity of these cities as much as it is in the physical and architectural memory. It's where these two things overlap, I think, that we're trying to explore with the photos.
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We are not at all considering cancelling the Olympics.
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Never before have I imagined my life without him—like this house, he is my only point of reference in this difficult existence, this unstable and frightening world. The thought of his leaving home fills me with a terror so strong, it takes my breath away. I feel like one of those seagulls covered in oil from a spill, drowning in a black tar of fear.
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The world is ruled by power and power is obtained by money.
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Trying to save a hater is like trying to teach astrophysics to a wino!
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You might not be ready for diplomacy with Beijing if you can't visit the Olympics without insulting our closest ally.
