Barack Obama Quotes

We've endured too many tragedies. And each time I learn the news I react not as a President, but as anybody else would - as a parent.

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• I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.

  

  Hailey Gates
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• We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.

  

  Ice T
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• Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.

  

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• I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
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• A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.

  

  Yoshiro Mori
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• Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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• No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.

  

  Naomi Scott
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• Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
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• 'The HoneyLine' is my web site and TV segments that were birthed out of the stark reality that we all need a few people to help navigate this life.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
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• Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.

  

  Valerie Plame
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• It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

  

  O. Henry
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• No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
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• As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.

  

  Gavin Newsom
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• I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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• I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.

  

  Damien Chazelle
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• It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.

  

  Madison Marlow
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• The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.

  

  Najib Razak
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• My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.

  

  Patricia Heaton
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• We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they say, "liked to see young people enjoying themselves" and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, "a good time was had by all."

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• You will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal, there really is only one, and that is this: to fulfill the highest most truthful expression of yourself as a human being. You want to max out your humanity by using your energy to lift yourself up, your family and the people around you. Theologian Howard Thurman said it best. He said, “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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• Our nation marches closer to Trumpism each day, a path paved with reckless Tweets and the normalization of the ugly and the absurd.

  

  David Brock
  • Path
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• Even as an 18-year-old, I had to grow comfortable with my leadership style, which is that I was really impatient with under-motivated people - extremely impatient, to the point where I was counterproductive as a manager of underproductive people. And that hasn't really changed. If people need to be motivated, I'm no good.

  

  Bing Gordon
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• Water makes me feel at peace. In Corsica, I spend most of my time on the beaches or in the rivers. That's one reason I love it there so much. The water is so clean and fresh - you can drink it straight out of the rivers! This island is my secret garden.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Time
  • Peace
  • Water

• We've endured too many tragedies. And each time I learn the news I react not as a President, but as anybody else would - as a parent.

  

  Barack Obama
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  • Parent