Barack Obama Quotes
If there's one thing I would like to see, it'd be for us to be able to price the cost of carbon emissions.
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I look like this for a reason. I was born this way. It was God-given.
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I'm over the word 'like' in conversation, and 'you know' seems to be the placeholder of choice, but when I'm writing dialogue, I tend to use those phrases because that's how people talk.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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Many of the wars we see around the world start as domestic conflicts that are fueled by external forces and powers. My view is that we can help peace if we help communities transform from the inside, on their own terms.
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In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.
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Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
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I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.
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There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not a reserve currency, and scoreless sports ties are boring.
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Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Right now, I'm thinking in terms of just having a good band, man. Having a good act for the stage. Being a good performer, you know? Connected to that is future recordings, and future tunes, that kind of stuff.
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Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
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After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.
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Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
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I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
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The GOP is broken. They need a Bill Clinton moment with someone to figure things out. Let me just say - and I don't agree with his policies, so let me put a warning label on the side of the packet here - If George W. Bush had never gotten in the disastrous Iraq war, he was trying to modernize the party on a series of fronts.
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Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.
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My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist. They named me after the great saint as a symbol of communal harmony.
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I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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I love the pleasure of finding the same truth in two different places. It has a lot to do with a soul.
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If there's one thing I would like to see, it'd be for us to be able to price the cost of carbon emissions.
