Barack Obama Quotes
Someday, our children, and our children’s children, will look at us in the eye and they'll ask us, did we do all that we could when we had the chance to deal with this problem and leave them a cleaner, safer, more stable world?
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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I kind of have my little OCD wood shed at my house where everything is just right when I go write.
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Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
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Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
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If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.
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If there is something that strikes me as interesting or beautiful or something I could learn from, and I don't write it down, then I could be at lunch with you, and it's like there's a pile of laundry in my brain that I haven't put away, and I struggle to really listen, so that's always been important to me.
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On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.
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India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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I will say, I can definitely throw down a sick beat once in a while and provide an amazing backup track for somebody who can really, actually freestyle.
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That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.
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Someday, our children, and our children’s children, will look at us in the eye and they'll ask us, did we do all that we could when we had the chance to deal with this problem and leave them a cleaner, safer, more stable world?
