Barack Obama Quotes
Commencement speech at Howard University, as quoted in 'Obama: Students Need to Stop Shutting Down Speech of People They Disagree With' by Josh Feldman, Mediaite (7 May 2016)
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
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That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.
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History is a series of mistakes. Now the task is to plan for those mistakes so those of us who are populists can actually take over the reins of power when the right mistakes are made.
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If you have a sudden emergency, earthquake, hurricane, you name it, we want to be able to have a National Guard officer able to command federal forces.
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I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up - it always does in the end.
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Being pregnant finally helped me understand what my true relationship was with my body - meaning that it wasn't put on this earth to look good in a swimsuit.
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It's just amazing to do something that's part of a pop culture phenomenon.
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Commencement speech at Howard University, as quoted in 'Obama: Students Need to Stop Shutting Down Speech of People They Disagree With' by Josh Feldman, Mediaite (7 May 2016)
