Barack Obama Quotes

What we have done, I think, is build a model from a lot of hard lessons in Afghanistan and Iraq but in other places around the world, where we are working with them in an advisory capacity.

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• In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

  

  Barack Obama
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• We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.

  

  Karen DeCrow
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• I guess I went into journalism to save the world. I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.

  

  Carl Honore
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• Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
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• My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
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• My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
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• Who would have ever thought that, within a couple months of getting into the WWE, that I'd be wrestling in the main event for the world championship? Then, nine months after getting here, actually being the world champion.

  

  A.J. Styles
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• Helping doing business easier, we choose the name Alibaba because it is a global company. It is founded in China, but it was created for the world.

  

  Jack Ma
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• Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.

  

  Ed Balls
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• I reject the insurance model. I think we should have a free-market approach to healthcare.

  

  Gary Johnson
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• We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.

  

  Wayne Coyne
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• Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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• If we had a party every time someone died on 'The Following,' we'd never get anything done.

  

  Valorie Curry
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• Anything that's done to address unemployment in terms of massive stimulus spending is going to exacerbate deficits. And anything that's done to address deficits in the short-term is going to exacerbate unemployment.

  

  Indra Nooyi
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• I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
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• Just about the entirety of the first album, 'Brown Sugar,' I wrote it, the majority of that record in my bedroom in Richmond. And all of the demos for it were done on a four-track in my bedroom. I think EMI was a little leery of me being in the studio producing it on my own, which is what I was fighting for.

  

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• Philanthropy is often seen as society's risk capital. That means the onus is on philanthropists, nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs to innovate. But philanthropic innovation is not just about creating something new. It also means applying new thinking to old problems, processes and systems.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
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• If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And that's a great way to shirk accountability for it with the public.

  

  Rachel Maddow
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• The world goes on as before, and it turns out that nobody else seems to to notice the unbearable lightness of being.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
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• I used to be really cute. I could send you earlier photos where I'm stunning. But I've gained about twenty pounds over the past two years, and the more weight I've put on, the more success I've had. If you drew a diagram of weight gain and me getting more work, a mathematician would draw some conclusions from that.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
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• And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time.

  

  Frank Gehry
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• I just don't really think of career. I've never been driven by career.

  

  James Lapine
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• There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
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• What we have done, I think, is build a model from a lot of hard lessons in Afghanistan and Iraq but in other places around the world, where we are working with them in an advisory capacity.

  

  Barack Obama
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