Barack Obama Quotes
If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don't get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.
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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
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I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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I was an expert horseman.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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Accept loss forever.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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Oh, my mom. She's one of my biggest fans.
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When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.
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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
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Although I performed in high school, my first real experience with theater was performing with a student-run organization at Vanderbilt University called The Original Cast where I learned that I loved performing and especially loved theater people.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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I got through with my ability to mimic others and make people laugh. I swaggered through life, but, in reality, I lived in fear pretty much every day. I acted like a completely normal person, and I suppose I was good at it. But, inside, it was a very different story.
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You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.
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I'm rediscovering Scotland; I'm falling in love with it again.
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I felt like it was a great secret when I found out that I could be in my 30s.
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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
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The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.
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Some of the free lunch programs were still goin' on - based on the last leg of the Black Panther Party.
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If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don't get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.
