Barack Obama Quotes

That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door.

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I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.
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I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.
Gail Devers -
I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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I remember when I was in third grade, I was in a classroom, and the teacher said, 'What do you want to do when you get older?' We were going around the room. I said, 'I want to be a professional basketball player.' She's like, 'That's not realistic.' I thought to myself, 'OK, watch.'
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I'm an emotional person.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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Money scares me, and it always has done. I've got a childish concept of money, and I like to keep it that way in the sense that I don't like to think about it.
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I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.
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I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them.
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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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It's a weird thing to say you want people to be sick of your song, but I guess that's what happens if your song goes really well.
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You know the old adage that the customer's always right? Well, I kind of think that the opposite is true. The customer is rarely right.
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America at the turn of this century is a far freer, more egalitarian society than in 1900.
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I don't like parties. There was never a party I was at where I didn't wish I was somewhere else.
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'Thursday' is a conceptual album. Whatever that situation was, I spent the whole album focusing on that situation.
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That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door.