Barack Obama Quotes
He [Barack Obama] talked about deficit reduction. This got me he was talking about how the deficit's being reduced faster in the last 60 years. That's because he's collected more taxes. That's like bragging that you paid your rent after you robbed a bank. It makes no sense.
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I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
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I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.
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I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting and what it is.' So I went to the HB Studio in New York, and I was there for about nine months.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
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Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.
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The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a decent living. That's just not true anymore for people without at least some post-high school education.
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I wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
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I got into rhythmic gymnastics when I was four years old.
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I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
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I think there's a certain level of trust that I have with women. I've always been honest, even when I haven't had good times in my life or my movie bombed or I've had great success. I've owned up to all of it.
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One of the difficulties in bringing about change in an organization is that you must do so through the persons who have been most successful in that organization, no matter how faulty the system or the organization is. To such persons, you see, it is the best of all possible organizations, because look who was selected by it ad look who succeeded most in it. Yet, these are the very people through whom we must bring about improvements.
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But I've consistently worked for 10 years.
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I am sure that the Ukrainian nation deserves a better life. That is why I have voted for good changes and for stability.
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I love acting, but I want to explore other things.
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He [Barack Obama] talked about deficit reduction. This got me he was talking about how the deficit's being reduced faster in the last 60 years. That's because he's collected more taxes. That's like bragging that you paid your rent after you robbed a bank. It makes no sense.
