Barack Obama Quotes
I do think that all politicians today have to be more attentive to people wanting to be heard, wanting to have more control over their lives.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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I did two or three plays every summer.
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
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Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
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Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.
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Washington is dominated by big money.
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My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.
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I need theatre for my equilibrium, because in theatre the actors don't care so much about image, about celebrity - you are more independent. There is not the narcissism, maybe, that you find in cinema.
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Oh, I started out young. They handed me a cotton sack when I was about 8 years old. Give me a little small one, tell me to fill it up. I never did like the farm but I was out there with my grandmother, didn't want to get away from around her too far.
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I do think that all politicians today have to be more attentive to people wanting to be heard, wanting to have more control over their lives.
