Barack Obama Quotes
Our politics at its best involves us recognizing ourselves in each other. And our politics at its worst are when we see immigrants or women or blacks or gays or Mexicans as somehow separate, apart from us.
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Just about anyone can make a good product, but it's the people that count. In the end, it's the employees who will take it from a kitchen-table idea to the next level. There are a lot of important things in business, but the people portion comes first.
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I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!
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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.
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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
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You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility.
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Did you know there's probably more golf played in Iceland than most places in the world? They play 24 hours a day in the summertime and the northern part is warmer than the southern part.
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Sometimes we make films just for our people, and it doesn't reach to anyone.
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Tourism is a very big economic benefit to the Sherpa people, and also, they have very strong ties to their own social attitudes and their own religion, so fortunately, they're not too influenced by many of our Western attitudes.
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History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.
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If I look back I feel frightened, not happy, because my life is a bit of a mystery to me.
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I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.
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The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.
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Our politics at its best involves us recognizing ourselves in each other. And our politics at its worst are when we see immigrants or women or blacks or gays or Mexicans as somehow separate, apart from us.
