Barack Obama Quotes
Losing the PR battles, particularly about healthcare, translated into losing his Democratic majorities in Congress, beginning with a Republican landslide in the midterm election of 2010.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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It's all about the blanket. Blanket, pillow, and red wine. You should always be asleep on a plane.
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In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
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My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.
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I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting the two together.
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Responsible statesmen have only one choice - to do everything possible to prevent a nuclear catastrophe. Any other position is short-sighted; more so, it is suicidal.
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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The military executes policy decisions.
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I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates.
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We sold OkCupid to Match in January of 2011. In September of 2012, I became CEO of all of Match, which is the operating segment of IAC that contains all of the dating properties.
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I am very interested in Ayurvedic medicine and hope to explore it more someday. I only have a very superficial understanding of the whole thing right now. But learning what my body type is has shifted my whole self-care regime a bit, and I feel better because of it.
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The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.
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The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible.
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Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.
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True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it.
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For me, one of the downfalls of electronic music is that it can feel a little soulless or robotic.
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For the first time, open source, peer-to-peer protocol developers can monetize their project on a protocol level.
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For the most part, the real work is done in the songwriting stage and recording; the next step is presenting to people.
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A transition, by definition, means you start in one place and finish in another.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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There's something else that my mother taught me, public service is about service. And, as her daughter, I've had a special window into how she serves. I've seen her holding the hands of mothers, worried about how they'll feed their kids, worried about how they'll get them the healthcare they need.
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Be truthful, say what you mean and mean what you say, don't ignore the given circumstances.
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Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
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Losing the PR battles, particularly about healthcare, translated into losing his Democratic majorities in Congress, beginning with a Republican landslide in the midterm election of 2010.
