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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• 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.

  

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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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• There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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• I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.

  

  Gail Carriger
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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.

  

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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.

  

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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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• California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land.

  

  Christopher Isherwood
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• Do you realize that if you fall into a black hole, you will see the entire future of the Universe unfold in front of you in a matter of moments and you will emerge into another space-time created by the singularity of the black hole you just fell into?

  

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• Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.

  

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• The best way to preserve your privacy is to use a search engine that does not keep your logs in the first place. That's the approach used by Startpage and its European parent company, Ixquick.

  

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• And every day that I spend as Charlotte and Aiden's mother, I think about my own mother, my wonderful, thoughtful, hilarious mother.

  

  Chelsea Clinton
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• 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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