Barack Obama Quotes
My advice to African leaders is to make sure that if, in fact, China is putting in roads and bridges, number one, that they are hiring African workers; number two, that the roads don't just lead from the mine to the port to Shanghai.
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Look at Judi Dench, who's brilliant in whatever bloody job she does.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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Responsible statesmen have only one choice - to do everything possible to prevent a nuclear catastrophe. Any other position is short-sighted; more so, it is suicidal.
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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
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Instead of passing on choppy waters to the next generation, we should endeavor to leave them a calmer sea.
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I kick-kick game, can't injure Nicki. That's why they nick-nicknamed me Ninja Nicki.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive.
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Every Democrat on Capitol Hill professes to be a fiscal hawk.
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Being a kid with black skin in South Central Los Angeles, in a part of the world where opportunity didn't necessarily knock every day, is what gave me this sensibility and drove me to explore my fascination with art.
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My advice to African leaders is to make sure that if, in fact, China is putting in roads and bridges, number one, that they are hiring African workers; number two, that the roads don't just lead from the mine to the port to Shanghai.
