Barack Obama Quotes
I'm very consistent about spending time with family. And when you have dinner with your daughters - they'll keep you in your place and they'll teach you something about perspective.
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I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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I'm still learning my craft.
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In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
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I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'
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If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
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I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief.
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I am a journalist.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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We have a choice - we can both think and feel, using our heads and our hearts.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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I just like playing unique characters that I love.
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Having principled men and women in office is how you protect yourself from tyranny, and that was something I learned from when I was 2, 3, 5 years old.
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I don't know, I like the word sassy.
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We always say Jordan is not rich in natural resources - we don't have oil or gas like some of our neighbors do - but I think in terms of human resources, we are quite lucky and we are really trying to foster an environment of innovation and technology. I think Jordan will emerge as a center of innovation in the Middle East.
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'This fellow,' he indicated the woodsman with a sweep of his stick, 'will reliably not become more alive, but he may have friends or family who will be unsettled to find him so extremely dead.'
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Even if I couldn't get my early novels published, I could still write. I went into newspapers, where I got paid to write every day. If there's a better school for would-be novelists, I don't know what it is.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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I don't know how to work a room. It's a real skill.
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I'm very consistent about spending time with family. And when you have dinner with your daughters - they'll keep you in your place and they'll teach you something about perspective.
