Barack Obama Quotes

If John McCain wants to have a debate about who has the temperament, and judgment, to serve as the next Commander-in-Chief, that's a debate I'm ready to have.

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• If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?

  

  Zhang Zhidong
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• Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Women
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• Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.

  

  Samuel Lover
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• I hated school. I travelled so much in my early years that I didn't understand the process. I felt suffocated - not like I was some grandiose artist; I just felt like an alien.

  

  Dakota Johnson
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• No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.

  

  Damian Lewis
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• I wanted to go to college and play football.

  

  Barry Larkin
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• You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.

  

  Cam Gigandet
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• I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.

  

  Radhanath Swami
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  • Spiritual
  • Parent

• People are really paying attention to the comic-book genre, and there's a lot of time and attention being invested in these projects with a wonderful sense of quality control.

  

  Mahershala Ali
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• I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'

  

  J. R. Martinez
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• I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.

  

  Zubin Mehta
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• In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.

  

  J. F. C. Fuller
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• Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• The moment in which you make somebody laugh, you're only doing it to make them laugh and be happy. Then afterward you can be like, 'Oh, I just want the attention. I feel so good that everybody's listening to me and I got the approval that I need.'

  

  T. J. Miller
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• Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.

  

  Idris Elba
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• I'm very proud I'm Chinese and represent the Chinese community.

  

  Patrick Chan
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• I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • People
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• I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Music
  • Kind
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• There aren't always, especially in low-income communities, the arts and the dance and the drama and the things that can really show a kid, 'Look, even if I'm three years behind in math, there's something I'm good at that can help me be successful in life.'

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
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• I feel that my characters all have some part of my character. I feel that they're all me in some way, certainly not in individuality, but they all bear elements of what I feel.

  

  Jack Kirby
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• Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
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• I want to see the Doncaster Rovers supporters get the club the success it deserves.

  

  Louis Tomlinson One Direction
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• I don't want to convert people to Buddhism - all major religions, when understood properly, have the same potential for good.

  

  Dalai Lama
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• If John McCain wants to have a debate about who has the temperament, and judgment, to serve as the next Commander-in-Chief, that's a debate I'm ready to have.

  

  Barack Obama
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