Barack Obama Quotes

Bernie Sanders would say, "You still have millions of African Americans who aren't insured, and if we had a single-payer system, that wouldn't be the case." And that's true.

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• I have played cricket on my own terms.

  

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• Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.

  

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• There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.

  

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• Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket. So, if I'm on set and I'm in character, I'm not thinking like a producer. If I'm on set and I'm not in character, wardrobe and make-up, and I'm just coming on set for the moments that I'm not shooting, then I'm able to be the producer.

  

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• Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

  

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• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

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• If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.

  

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• Instead of asking God to remove our problems so that our lives might be happy, we must purposefully try to learn as much as we can - and thereby become happier due to our insights and growth.

  

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• At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.

  

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• I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.

  

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• It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.

  

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• History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.

  

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• Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

  

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• I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.

  

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• I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.

  

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• To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

  

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• I take the time to show up for people in my field who are often not seen and heard in the same capacity as I am. Applauding other women and queer writers of color enables me to recognize and showcase the abundance of talent and work being created.

  

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• Use your heart to love somebody. And If your heart is big enough, use your heart to love EVERYBODY.

  

  Stevie Wonder
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• A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend.

  

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• CEOs shouldn't worry about their budget all the time - on a day-to-day basis, they should work on managing their company, building an awesome product, developing key relationships, identifying distribution channels, etc.

  

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• Wherever Christianity has produced what historians call a 'popular piety' claiming to be part of the national heritage, anti-Christian reaction among the intelligentsia has followed.

  

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• Bernie Sanders would say, "You still have millions of African Americans who aren't insured, and if we had a single-payer system, that wouldn't be the case." And that's true.

  

  Barack Obama
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