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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Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that Law rules all. And it is enough to remember that law rules all.
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It was fantastic playing Conan; it was such an experience to go out of the country and be this barbaric human savage child for a month or so. It was a blast and definitely a great experience.
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We do not judge, we believe that we are all beautiful intelligent expressions of GOD here on this planet.
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I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.
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Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love—but sometimes it was so hard to love. Sometimes my heart was sinking so fast with anger, desolation and weariness, I was afraid it would sink to the very bottom of the Pacific and I would not be able to lift it back up.
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Obama raises human rights in Vietnam, calls for 'peaceful resolution' of South China Sea disputes, CNN (24 May 2016)
