Barack Obama Quotes
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Obviously [my daughters] - and Michelle - have made a lot of sacrifices on behalf of my cockamamie ideas, the running for office and things.
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I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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While make-up helps to enhance one's features, too much of it tends to hide a person's features.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.
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No one knows what the top-performing asset class will be next year. Lacking this prescience, your next-best solution is to own all of the classes and rebalance regularly.
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My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.
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You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.
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I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
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I have a huge passion for animals and while retirement is a long way off, when I do I would love to do something with animals.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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You have to be quite stupid to act.
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Our parents were just brilliant parents who encouraged us to do whatever we wanted to do.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Hollywood is a community that's so inbred, it's a wonder the children have any teeth.
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I've done a lot of plays before where I had to do a New York accent, but never a Philly one before. They do the rhotic 'r' - where you say the 'r' - where most New Yorkers don't.
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My sister was the singer, and I always had the mentality there could only be one in the family.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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Wall Street is greedy, reckless and they operate illegally. That's fine. But what do you do?
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I'm never going to complain about doing my job. I love what I do!
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My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.
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Obviously [my daughters] - and Michelle - have made a lot of sacrifices on behalf of my cockamamie ideas, the running for office and things.
