Barack Obama Quotes
Every country has violent, hateful, or mentally unstable people. What's different is not every country is awash with easily accessible guns.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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I kind of have my little OCD wood shed at my house where everything is just right when I go write.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
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I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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There are a lot of people who consider themselves 'spiritual,' but that can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. I don't really talk about it that often, because there's too much talk in the world. Especially with Christians, there's more proselytizing than there is actual living proof of it. That's kind of sad.
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
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I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.
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You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.
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Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland.
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I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.
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I got history solidly under my belt, reading Russian history and biographies. I couldn't change the facts. I could only play with how the people might have responded to the facts of their lives.
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Think of the poorest person you know and see if your next act will be of any use to him.
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One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.
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I'm a big believer of work/life balance. You need a little down time to recharge to make sure that when you're here, you're really all here. I still have a child in high school, so I go to her sporting events, even if it means leaving work and working again when I get home. I probably should work out a little more than I do.
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You know the old adage that the customer's always right? Well, I kind of think that the opposite is true. The customer is rarely right.
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Every country has violent, hateful, or mentally unstable people. What's different is not every country is awash with easily accessible guns.
