Barack Obama Quotes
You might not be ready for diplomacy with Beijing if you can't visit the Olympics without insulting our closest ally.
Quotes to Explore
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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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As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday's dream. Because it is a dream, there are so many contradictions and I have to adjust them to make the story work. But, in principle, the original dream does not change.
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Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.
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When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced himself, by counting his pulse, that the duration of the oscillations was independent of the arc through which it moved, who could know that this discovery would eventually put it in our power, by means of the pendulum, to attain an accuracy in the measurement of time till then deemed impossible, and would enable the storm-tossed seaman in the most distant oceans to determine in what degree of longitude he was sailing?
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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.
