Barack Obama Quotes
It's hard to anticipate. I can tell you what I'm feeling right now is that I'm busier than I expected these last two weeks. A great deal of emotion around the people that I've worked with and the gratitude I feel for the sacrifices they've made on behalf of the American people, but also on behalf of me personally.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.
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I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
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We had always been a real band; Heart was never a construct.
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Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.
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Creating a positive future begins in human conversation. The simplest and most powerful investment any member of a community or an organisation can make is to begin with other people as though the answers mattered.
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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
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There is an instinctive understanding that the cultural, social and political development of a nation is a dynamic process which has to be given purpose and direction by drawing on tradition as well as by experiment, innovation and a willingness to evaluate both old and new ideas objectively.
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It's hard to anticipate. I can tell you what I'm feeling right now is that I'm busier than I expected these last two weeks. A great deal of emotion around the people that I've worked with and the gratitude I feel for the sacrifices they've made on behalf of the American people, but also on behalf of me personally.
