Barack Obama Quotes

I am confident that Assad's days are numbered. But what we can't do is to simply suggest that, as Governor Romney at times has suggested, that giving heavy weapons, for example, to the Syrian opposition is a simple proposition that would lead us to be safer over the long term.

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• The congressmen and senators used to go have a drink in D.C. They would disagree all day long, but they would find that time to sit down and learn about each other personally. I think that's totally wiped out; I don't think it really exists anymore.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
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• We want to be on the edge of technology all of the time. We think long-term.

  

  Hans Vestberg
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• I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.

  

  Ed Koch
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• To me, country songs are simple.

  

  Sam Hunt
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• I don't like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don't want the hitter to see that something bothers me.

  

  Jacob deGrom
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• Maybe Trump himself will be voted out through impeachment, right?

  

  Naomi Klein
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• Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

  

  Namie Amuro
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• In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long.

  

  Victor LaValle
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• We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be great. Trust me.

  

  Dan Hawkins
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• I think a lot of writers are tempted to add complexity by over-complicating things, but always remember that most natural rules/laws are, at their core, simple. Start simple, and build from there, or you risk getting yourself and your readers tangled.

  

  V. E. Schwab
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• Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
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• I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begrudge giving. In New York, it's like that.

  

  Sam Simon
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• There's nothing like simple spicy egg bhurji.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
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• Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.

  

  Karen Armstrong
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• I haven't done a marathon for a long time. So we'll see. I will need good luck.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
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• Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the low-down on water. The only way you can really understand passive violence is by going somewhere far, far away from phones, news, TV, the Internet.

  

  Inga Muscio
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• The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It's that simple.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
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• I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people.

  

  Ida B. Wells
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• So if you want to have a great video game-based movie you have to keep the mood of the game, use the normal character setup - but you have to flesh out the story and provide more background for the characters.

  

  Uwe Boll
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• People see me on the street, and they point to me, and they're like, 'Hey! All right, all right, all right!'

  

  Kevin Hart
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• In Botswana in the Kalahari Desert there's a tented camp called Jack's Camp, which is like old Africa meets Ralph Lauren. The Oriental rugs, the old leather chairs - you feel like you've just jumped out of a Ralph Lauren ad.

  

  Mark Burnett
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• Someday we may have as many followers as the harpsichord.

  

  Eddie Condon
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• I am confident that Assad's days are numbered. But what we can't do is to simply suggest that, as Governor Romney at times has suggested, that giving heavy weapons, for example, to the Syrian opposition is a simple proposition that would lead us to be safer over the long term.

  

  Barack Obama
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