Barack Obama Quotes
You don't need to see my birth certificate, or my college records, or my legal writings, or... anything.
Quotes to Explore
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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Justice is revenge.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
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My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.
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To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
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If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent.
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No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
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How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me.
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I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing a conventional novel, and I think that the quality of the novel I write will derive precisely from the peculiarity or aloneness, if you will, of the experience I write from.
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There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.
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A stern schoolteacher may be an intimidating presence to an average kid, but for a child whose stepfather beats him up, she may represent a torturer and precipitate a rage attack or a terrified cowering in the corner.
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You don't need to see my birth certificate, or my college records, or my legal writings, or... anything.
