Barack Obama Quotes
What drags down our entire economy is when there's an ever-widening chasm between the ultra-rich and everybody else.
Quotes to Explore
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A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.
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At my core, I know that the American Dream is about the opportunity to work hard to make your future.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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Fashion's important to me, but beauty fades. All that stuff is fun while it lasts, but anything can happen tomorrow. You've got to have so much more about you than the way you look or your clothes.
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Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.
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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
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I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
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I wanna live.
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My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.
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For me, the labor movement and public education are linked as the essential building blocks to a strong middle class and a path to the American dream. It's why I went to Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations as an undergrad and then to law school.
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I think Spain will always remain inspirational, and I think French cuisine will continue to be very French and yet very relevant with its time and keep evolving. But the last thing you want for it is to become too trendy and confusing. It has too much history.
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I realize it's a cliche almost, that coming out of the closet is a very healthy and empowering thing to do, but for me, it really has been a truly wonderful thing.
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Our ports and our borders are the most unprotected fronts in the war on terror.
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To build a digital media company, you have to focus equally on content and technology. In content, you have to focus equally on the written word and video.
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Now that Sacramento is building an arena downtown, they're the only one not in an urban core. The only one. It's really not good business. It's nothing against Auburn Hills, Oakland County or L. Brooks Patterson. An arena in the middle of a field is not an ideal thing.
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It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.
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Without community events like NewFest, I don't think we'd have a queer cinema in America.
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Rich people take advice from people who are richer than they are. Poor people take advice from their friends, who are just as broke as they are.
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The conviction that the best way to prepare children for a harsh, rapidly changing world is to introduce formal instruction at anearly age is wrong. There is simply no evidence to support it, and considerable evidence against it. Starting children early academically has not worked in the past and is not working now.
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According to Diotima, Love is not a god at all, but is rather a spirit that mediates between people and the objects of their desire. Love is neither wise nor beautiful, but is rather the desire for wisdom and beauty.
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You can be on the cusp of something. Appreciate the cusp, not the something. Appreciate this moment now.
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What drags down our entire economy is when there's an ever-widening chasm between the ultra-rich and everybody else.
