Barack Obama Quotes

Obama raises human rights in Vietnam, calls for 'peaceful resolution' of South China Sea disputes, CNN (24 May 2016)

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I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff.
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Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
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No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.
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I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.
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I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.
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Proust is a huge author for me.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
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I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
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People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.
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Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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Attack those concepts such as 'third world.' Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then people of color are the majority in this world. We should be the 'first world.'
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I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings.
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I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.
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I try to come at fitness and nutrition from a perspective of gentleness and what will make me feel good afterwards. I try to stay out of the mindset of needing to fix myself. I do whatever seems fun to me.
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When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.
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Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
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When we're in the studio, and we sing that first note on that record, you're committing to being a Backstreet Boy!
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Every marvel of our age arose out of the critical give and take of an open society. No other civilization ever managed to incorporate this crucial innovation, weaving it into daily life. And if you disagree with this ... say so!
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Even though some in our government may claim that civil liberties must be compromised in order to protect the public, we must be wary of what we are giving up in the name of fighting terrorism.
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Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear, Till death like sleep might steal on me, And I might feel in the warm air My cheek grow cold, and hear the sea Breathe o'er my dying brain its last monotony.
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If I could drink only one wine, it would be Champagne.
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Obama raises human rights in Vietnam, calls for 'peaceful resolution' of South China Sea disputes, CNN (24 May 2016)