Barack Obama Quotes
What I would advise, what I advised before the election, and what I will continue to advise after the election, is that elections matter; voting matters; organizing matters; being informed on the issues matter.
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When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.
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My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.
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It is not possible for a person to be completely free of sin and be squeaky clean.
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I think people respect honesty rather than hiding it.
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Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.
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I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.
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Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
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My goal in life was to pursue the good life.
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I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.
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I famously had a huge television producer say to me one time, 'Can you please stop doing that to your face? It's very distracting and unattractive.' And I was like, 'You mean move it? Okay, sorry, I guess we're not going to work together.'
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Art class was my thing, but not any other class.
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I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.
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Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work.
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According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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The science shows that the best way to use money is to take the issue of money off the people. Pay people enough so that money isn't an issue, and they can focus on doing great work.
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If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.
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Sometimes there are some matchups and man-to-mans that you like to match up on.
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The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.
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People feel uncomfortable talking about racial issues out of fear that if they express things they will be characterized in a way that's not fair. I think that there is still a need for a dialogue about things racial that we have not engaged in.
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When mankind goes back to treating people the way you want to be treated, things will settle, I don't see that happening. I treat people the way I want to be treated, which makes me odd.
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I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.
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He’s freed some fire from ice in pity for Heaven. He’s left open—for God—the doors of Hell tonight.
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What I would advise, what I advised before the election, and what I will continue to advise after the election, is that elections matter; voting matters; organizing matters; being informed on the issues matter.
