Barack Obama Quotes
Sanctions alone could not stop Iran's nuclear program. But they did help bring Iran to the negotiating table.
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By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.
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If you're old enough to be arrested, you're old enough to carry a gun.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.
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Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.
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With great ideas come great changes. Bitcoin's that.
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At any given moment, it's not about where we are supposed to be. It's about what work, which relationship, what decision I take. Every moment counts. Every decision counts. And if we look at our decisions in life as such, we stop battling and start winning.
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I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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CDs are not as good as vinyl, and you buy one in the supermarket along with the yoghurt.
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Sometimes we overemphasize the political system. There are other ways to make a difference. There's technology, there's media, there's business.
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Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help from the government.
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Philosophical questions are not by their nature insoluble. They are, indeed, radically different from scientific questions, because they concern the implications and other interrelations of ideas, not the order of physical events; their answers are interpretations instead of factual reports, and their function is to increase not our knowledge of nature, but our understanding of what we know.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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Sanctions alone could not stop Iran's nuclear program. But they did help bring Iran to the negotiating table.
