Barack Obama Quotes
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I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
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I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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If something is mine, then I want to keep it.
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I don't like possessions.
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In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
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We should always remember that it is by His invitation that we come to His holy house, the temple of the Lord. We should respond to His invitation by being worthy, by being prepared, and by having the temple as a priority in our lives. While in the temple we should act as if we are in His holy presence.
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A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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I'm a holy man minus the holiness.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.
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When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full.
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Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.
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Don't get me wrong – I've gone to a club. But I'd much rather be with my close friends at home or a concert, or on a trip. I'll go dancing with my grandma. She likes to cut a rug!
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I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.
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Venturing further than the length of your sightOut past the reach of your beginningsThere is a gamble in each proud act of flightBut the losses pale before the winningsCircling and diving with this freedom you’ve foundIllusion blows apart and scattersThere is no darkness in this place that we're boundLove is the only thing that matters
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The woman who accepts the limitations of womanhood finds in those very limitations her gifts, her special calling which bears her up into perfect freedom, into the will of God.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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I'm all for past influences; the question is whether they are deterministic. Freud and the behaviorists argue that what we are at any given moment is billiard balls whose past determines our future course. That doesn't take into account that we are forever generating internal representations of positive futures and choosing among them.
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The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails.
