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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Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
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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 think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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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 fact that 35 percent of all American giving went to religious organizations in 2010 reflects how closely bound many of us are with our place of worship.
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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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The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer.
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For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
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I have been so lucky to receive so much love from those who enjoy my music, that I feel I have to give as much of it as I can back to children.
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What we are oftentimes reminding people of is the fact that the history of police in the U.S. was that they were slave patrols. They were quite literally created in order to capture enslaved Africans.
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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.
