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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What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian.
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'The Danish Girl' was published in 2000. Then it, too, would disappear, as most books do. It fell out of print almost everywhere. I wrote other books and, as an editor, worked on dozens more. Yet always, Lili stayed with me.
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I think, over the time that you're in the league, you learn what your body needs: you learn the amount of soft tissue work you need, the amount of dry needling, or the amount of sleep or your nutrition. You also understand that you have to pull back.
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Hollywood has given me a great, warm hug.
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There are values on Broadway that are dangerous: it's got to be Best Musical, it's got to make money, it's got to run a certain amount of time. Nowhere in this, of course, is there any mention of quality.
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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.