Barack Obama Quotes
The politics around trade has always been tough, particularly in the Democratic party, because people have memories of outsourcing and job loss.
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I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.
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One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.
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I want to do stories that really move me, that have an audience, and at the end of the day, I want people to feel something when they walk out of the cinema.
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I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for something - money, free ad space, your first born. So it is probably no surprise that people often don't take my calls.
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Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as 'founding fathers.'
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I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.
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Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.
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I want to know what people thought and what they wore and what they ate for breakfast.
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I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.
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My focus has been and will continue to be on doing my job.
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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.
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People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
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People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.
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I want to be remembered like Pete Rose. 'Charlie Hustle.' I want people to say, 'Wherever he was, he was always giving it his all.'
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Marriage is socialism among two people.
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I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight.
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If I had been trying to take the job away from him in a sneaky, underhand manner, then I deserved all I got. But it was the other way around. I was trying to get him the job.
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I was never a fan of Chanel. I liked it on other people. Some other people. All the ladies who were too plump and busty looked like little sausages.
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NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.
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It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political.
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Half a lifetime is spent with the unspoken question: Will it happen will it not?
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A guru is one who tells you to throw away all the crutches that we have been made to believe are essential for our survival. He would ask you to walk, and he would say that if you fall, you will arise and walk.
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The politics around trade has always been tough, particularly in the Democratic party, because people have memories of outsourcing and job loss.
