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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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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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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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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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy.
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One of the things that's influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really admired, and felt challenged to come up with music, lyrics, and recordings that stood up to the expectations of those musicians and myself.
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I admire him so much; if I was ever going to have a dude-crush, it would be on George Clooney. I mean, I don't think you can avoid it. It's like a superpower - he just sucks anybody in around him.
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I just think if you're 44 years old and you're not smarter than you were when you were 35 years old or 25 years old, just stay in your room.
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God only knows what else is on the web about me.
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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.
