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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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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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've had fans do some pretty awesome things... I once had a fan do a mock proposal for me in Mumbai, inside a McDonalds... and I've had fans give me some precious things. I had one fan give me her mother's ring; I've gotten some pretty intense stuff. And I always get drawings and scrapbooks from fans, which is also pretty cool.
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For the very young, there's nothing better than Mother Goose and anything by Dr. Seuss for the rhythms and language.
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I know deep down I'm a star.
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I'm very proud of what my parents achieved and what they stood for. They didn't have much, but in many ways they were richer than most.
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I think at a certain age I became conscious of the power of words. And it was fairly late. I was kind of a goofball - but I was always subconsciously thinking about issues.
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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.
