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 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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I love mentoring young girls. I've always been like that.
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They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who thought of them.
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For yesterday and for all tomorrows, we dance the best we know.
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All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the gods as psychic factors, which is to say, as archetypes of the unconscious. No doubt this discovery is hardly credible as yet.
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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country.
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You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
