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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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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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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But I've never looked at myself as being particularly funny.
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I'm not driven by being understood.
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There are many people like me who believe firmly, if somewhat incoherently, that pockets on this planet are filled with what humans have left behind them, both good and evil, and that any such spiritual accumulation can stay there forever, past definition of such a stern word.
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Music is the most important thing. I'm thinking of my future. There has to be something new, and I want to be part of it. I want to lead an orchestra with excellent musicians. I want to play music which draws pictures of the world and its space
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We need to find ways to communicate with each other.
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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.
