Barack Obama Quotes
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[Afghanistan and Iraq] are still countries that are fragile enough that we're gonna have to partner with them in some way.
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Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
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I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.
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I just heard the latest joke about my hair: 'Do you know what that is on her head? It's a steering wheel to drive the state.'
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I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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When I came to Delhi and noticed an insider view, I felt what it was, and I was surprised to see it. It seemed as if dozens of separate governments are running at the same time in one main government. It appeared that everyone has its own fiefdom.
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My own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a low tax rate when they decide where to locate.
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I've been lucky to ride 10 different horses at the Olympics. I'd like to think that of all of them, Big Ben - who was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame - would still be competitive in the contemporary sport.
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Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.
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I go to wherever God calls me, wherever the church calls me to come to minister and preach the word of God.
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The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals.
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It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.
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President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it.
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The most-asked question when someone describes a novel, movie or short story to a friend probably is, 'How does it end?' Endings carry tremendous weight with readers; if they don't like the ending, chances are they'll say they didn't like the work. Failed endings are also the most common problems editors have with submitted works.
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I always believe that one can't interfere in another's work. Once I start work on any film, I surrender myself completely and blindly follow the director.
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It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair.
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I learned music from a book on piano theory. I was only interested in knowing about chords. From that, and from the 'Harvard Dictionary of Music,' I learned everything I wanted to know.
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I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.
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Freedom of ideas and communications is one of the things we are fighting for, and our enemies are fighting against.
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It's mental discipline that sets one apart, the ability to think differently and to generate energy in the right direction.
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It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.
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The broad range of services we provide across our five businesses, together with our deep industry expertise, continues to differentiate Accenture, and we remain the partner of choice for the world's leading companies.
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We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.
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[Afghanistan and Iraq] are still countries that are fragile enough that we're gonna have to partner with them in some way.
