Barack Obama Quotes
It's one of the biggest benefits of being president that you really don't think about until you get here.
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Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.
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Producing food to eat is the single most destructive environmental activity humans engage in.
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I don't plan on being bashful.
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I just enjoy being onstage and relating to the audience.
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I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
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Being in water makes me relax instantly.
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Historical science is being left in the dust.
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Every four weeks I go up a bra size... it's worth being pregnant just for the breasts.
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I loved being in a band.
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Street and park trees provide tremendous benefits to cities.
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There are days when I still want to be able to do what I want when I want, but there's also something wonderful about being secure.
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President Mandela was not a hands-on president at any time.
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Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing.
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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I've been lucky to work with people that I like most of the time. If I don't like them, I'll play head games with them to get their minds spinning.
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Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well.
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At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.
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I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?'
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The thing we don't want to do is overstate the benefits, but there is all kinds of proof that exercise, both physical and mental, increases brain activity.
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I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many readers when it comes to what counts as 'done well.' For me, the most important thing is that the film maintains the spirit of the original book.
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Would this country be better off if no one drank? Yes, it would be, but we tried that; it doesn't work. I don't want to tell anybody that they can't have as many drinks as they want every single night of the week as long as they don't get behind the wheel of a car.
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Between the covers, a book can be a sin.
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It's one of the biggest benefits of being president that you really don't think about until you get here.
