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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As your perspective of the world increases not only is the pain it inflicts on you less but also its meaning. Understanding the world requires you to take a certain distance from it.
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Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.
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Don't give up. It's really important to trust your impulses as an artist no matter what anybody else says.
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He has a song in his heart for me. I hope it is not "Shut Uppa You Face, Whatsa Matta You.
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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.
