Barack Obama Quotes
But another thing I know is this — we can’t steer ourselves out of this crisis by heading in the same, disastrous direction. We can’t change direction with a new driver who wants to follow the same old map. And that’s what this election is all about.
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I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to make that decision and to intrude ourselves into the lives of this family.
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You don't have to be the biggest, tallest, strongest guy to do whatever you want to do. You can do anything. There's tall doctors, short doctors. It doesn't matter. You don't have to be the tallest guy to play the sport of basketball, football or whatever you want to play.
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Technology itself is neither good nor bad. People are good or bad.
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When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else.
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Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.
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I feel like I'm constantly falling behind. I feel like every day I'm out of the office I'm falling behind.
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When we stop running up huge budget deficits and start acting responsibly in Washington, we will provide small-business owners with the certainty they need to put Americans back to work.
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Cofounder relationships are among the most important in the entire company.
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Mass prosperity came with the mass innovation that sprung up in 1815 in Britain, soon after in America, and later in Germany and France: It brought sustained growth to these nations - also to nations with entrepreneurs willing and able to copy the innovations.
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The machine of awards season is very stressful. But this is the Oscars! It's your peers, your heroes, people you admire, the people who inspired you to get into this work in the first place. It's a pretty overwhelming feeling when you think about it.
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You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you're not on the path to a clean energy future.
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I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators.
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Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on.
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Select your friendships carefully. Gather people around you who will reinforce your lifestyle.
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Some sensations are sleeps that take up all the extent of the mind like a fog, don't let us think, don't let us act, don't let us be clearly.
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We for a certainty are not the firstHave sat in taverns while the tempest hurledTheir hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursedWhatever brute and blackguard made the world.
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The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.
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II. The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary.
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But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.
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I am tempted to say that a doctorate in AI would be negatively useful, but I am not one to hold someone’s reckless youth against them – just because you acquired a doctorate in AI doesn’t mean you should be permanently disqualified.
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You're perceived as being a success if you find a job in some big city and work with hundreds of other people and draw a paycheck every month.
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By the time I arrived for my freshman year at Swarthmore College in 1979, I had already had many seizures, although my family, friends and I did not know it.
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I suppose it is a bit of a date that we're having at the moment. As is usually the case you don't get married on a first date, you've got to go out a few times before you make any big decisions.
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But another thing I know is this — we can’t steer ourselves out of this crisis by heading in the same, disastrous direction. We can’t change direction with a new driver who wants to follow the same old map. And that’s what this election is all about.
