Barack Obama Quotes

Insist that the first question each of us asks isn't "What's good for me?" but "What's good for the country my children will inherit?

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• Any time you can give consumers more of what they want, it's a good thing. Unbundling the album is a good thing. In the case of music - because it is content that you can slice into songs - doing that is of huge benefit to consumers.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
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• The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.

  

  Xavier Becerra
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  • Kids
  • Parents

• There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.

  

  Nathaniel Rich
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  • Human being

• I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.

  

  Vince McMahon
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• We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.

  

  Sam Brownback
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• The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

  

  E. M. Forster
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• I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
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• I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.

  

  Wendy E. Long
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• For me, take Tiger Woods. I always thought he was great, but I never truly understood how good he was until I had the chance to go to Tiger Woods Golf Camp. He taught me how to swing and was hitting the ball, and this dude was unreal.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
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• In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.

  

  Harald zur Hausen
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• I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.

  

  Larry Drake
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• That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
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• It's important to have good tunes, but words are the thing for me.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
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• The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba.

  

  Kamisese Mara
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• I'm not really into method acting - the way I was taught was the good old-fashioned British way of just doing your research and getting on with it.

  

  Laura Donnelly
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• Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world.

  

  Kary Mullis
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• I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was never good at algebra. In fact, I flunked it twice in high school.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
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  • Mind
  • School

• If you have two good off spinners, what is the problem in playing both of them.

  

  Kapil Dev
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  • You
  • Problem

• I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, I've turned around. I took a good look at myself and said, I think it's time to get back at work.

  

  Otis Blackwell
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  • Work

• There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.

  

  Jacob Epstein
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• Obama's 'reset' with Russia and 'pivot' to Asia never materialized.

  

  Pete Hoekstra

• Mrs. Colquhoun was being amiable because she thought Catherine was down and out, and Mrs. Colquhoun was what she was, hard, severe, critical, grudging of happiness, kind to failure so long as it remained failure, simply because there wasn’t a soul in the whole world who really loved her. A devoted husband would have done much to bring out her original goodness; a very devoted husband would have done everything.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
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• In 1971, near the middle of Nixon's first term, he approved a plan to install a White House taping system as a way of preserving an accurate chronicle of important discussions and decisions. Except for Nixon, three aides, and the Secret Service, no one knew about the listening devices.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
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  • Listening

• Insist that the first question each of us asks isn't "What's good for me?" but "What's good for the country my children will inherit?

  

  Barack Obama
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