Barack Obama Quotes
For all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend history in the direction of justice.
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most businesses, and certainly not for businesses that are growing at the rate that we have grown.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
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You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
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I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.
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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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It couldn't interest me less, the idea of putting a living room on stage. I just think, what's the point of walking into a theater to see a living room? A sofa in a forest? Now you're talking.
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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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We never thought that we would be more than an opening act.
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I want to be a billionaire, and then I want to change something in the world for real.
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For all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend history in the direction of justice.
