Barack Obama Quotes

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• I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can surprise us how immediate or moving it is, when perhaps those feelings are just there, waiting to be accessed all the time.

  

  Sadie Jones
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  • Waiting

• When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Love
  • Moving

• My grandfather started a school for the underprivileged in Chandigarh, and that is why we moved from Himachal to Chandigarh. It was a small school, where even I would teach while in school.

  

  Yami Gautam
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• My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Up
  • Kids
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• Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
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• I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.

  

  Tahar Rahim
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• I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.

  

  Kat Dennings
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  • Hours

• Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.

  

  Laura Kightlinger
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• I see the demographics increasing, and by that I mean the notion of social acceptance is growing, not decreasing; I think the notion of fiscal responsibility is growing, not decreasing. And Republicans seem to be moving further away from those two categories than closer.

  

  Gary Johnson
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• I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town - you could go anywhere.

  

  Rand Paul
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• When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • People
  • Country
  • Why

• If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn't us. Don't be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• The two great aims of industrialism - replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy - seem close to fulfillment.

  

  Wendell Berry
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• The challenge is sort of capturing the issues that Oregonians feel strongly about and moving forward on those.

  

  Kate Brown
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• When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.

  

  Sam Raimi
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• Let's find those areas where modest and reasonable tax cuts will have the biggest positive impact on our economy, and which will improve the lives of those who need it most: working families, retirees, and small business owners.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Business
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• Everything has positive and negative consequences.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
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• And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.

  

  Wangari Maathai
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• When I was in the California legislature in the '80s, the organic growers, who were sort of the small hippie farmers in those days, brought it to my attention that there were no regulations on organic labeling. In essence, anybody could just grow a thing any way they wanted and put 'organic' on it.

  

  Sam Farr
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• We agree that man was not created to survive in space.

  

  Walter Lang
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• I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.

  

  David Hockney
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• You have to be delusional to get into this business, you know?

  

  Anderson East
  • Business

• I was changing my outfits, my looks, my wig, sometimes several times a day. That's when I know my soul is restless.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Soul

• We've come to be consumed by a 24-hour, slash-and-burn, negative ad, bickering, small-minded politics that doesn't move us forward.

  

  Barack Obama
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