Barack Obama Quotes
In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?
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I'm here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don't follow what you've been told you're supposed to do.
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The advantage doesn't come because you can run more than someone over 90 minutes. The advantage comes when, in the tenth minute, I'm sprinting back and making another guy chase me. By the end of the game, that guy's worn down, but I can still keep going at the same pace.
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I hope I don't just sit around moping for two years.
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Politics is the art of the next best.
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It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time at the end. I suppose that's what we're all looking for. But each story has its own valence, its own way of saying goodbye to you.
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Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.
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I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.
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For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.
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Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.
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At the end of Season 1 of 'Cheers', it was the lowest rated show in all of network television... So we turn to 'Bill Cosby'; when he came to Thursday night, he just exploded. And once the audience was there, we said, 'Hey, by the way, we also have this other great show. It's called 'Cheers'.'
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A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.
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I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope.
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We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.
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I used to believe that people are only born once, but now I feel I have been reborn, like I was given a new life. I see myself as a child, full of energy and hope.
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Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
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There are no friends at cards or world politics.
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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
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Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
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Lyrically I'm very ironic and silly, but I hope I'll touch your heart.
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International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.
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Being sexy is something inside, and not everybody has it.
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I don't know if many people know this about me, but I have multiple sclerosis. So I don't have time for a lot of shades of gray. I don't have time for BS.
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My baby will be growing up in Liverpool, so we have another Scouser.
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In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?
