Barack Obama Quotes
I would not advise people who feel strongly or are concerned about some of the issues that have been raised during the course of the [president electing] campaign.
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
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As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
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I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.
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'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.
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The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
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I do remember the moment when, as a child, I realized that the things we call 'TV shows' are really just the stuff that gets put between commercials. Later, I came to see that the kinds of things that get on 'free' TV are shows that help sell products.
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As a hopeless romantic, I'm drawn to stories of improbable beginnings.
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Detroit is full of talent.
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Now the amygdala is our early warning detector, our danger detector. It sorts and scours through all of the information looking for anything in the environment that might harm us. So given a dozen news stories, we will preferentially look at the negative news.
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I would not advise people who feel strongly or are concerned about some of the issues that have been raised during the course of the [president electing] campaign.
