Barack Obama Quotes
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It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
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During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves.
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But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.
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Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
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There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.
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I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics.
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There are many guys out there who look like me - you know, brunettes with long hair. There are thousands. But I think the difference is that I am a real polo player, who does endorsements for Ralph Lauren on the side, and I've always looked at it that way.
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An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.
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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
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I feel like freedom of speech is one of the great things in this country and the freedom to do what you feel is right.
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
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I know I had been successful in football. I had been successful in broadcasting. I didn't think that anything could touch me. I thought, I can beat anything.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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One of the downsides of being a poker pro is that people see exactly how you play.
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Now all oscillatory movements of such an electron can be conceived of as being split up into force, and two circular oscillations perpendicular to this direction rotating in opposite directions.
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I didn't believe when I was first told that I have cancer. I thought, 'How can a young person like me get cancer?' I thought it could never happen to me. It took me a while to realise that I was diagnosed with cancer.
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I am a book of snow, a spacious hand, an open meadow, a circle that waits, I belong to the earth and its winter.
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You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
