Barack Obama Quotes
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
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Love is more than one thing.
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If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.
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I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
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I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that.
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Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.
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My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money, and by 10 I was paying more tax than the parents of other pupils. I feel a lot older than my years. Because I was working with adults, I had to mature a lot quicker.
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After 9/11, I changed a lot of the ways I viewed the world. I realized my comedy and my politics and my view of the world did not match. I had to start writing from my heart.
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Post-minimalism implies music that's genre-less. Minimalism was very important because it came at a time when contemporary music had become so complex, so experimental and detached that people turned away from it. Minimalism broke that trend and brought music back to the people.
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The possibilities for creation and insight are endless. We're constantly collecting more data, and it's starting to be very relevant to our lives.
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I love Judy Garland, Shirley Bassey.
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I was blown away by the control and the range that I was hearing. I'm listening to Pavarotti and thinking, What the hell have I been doing with my voice all these years?
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I try to stay away from processed foods. I eat lean meats and get as many veggies as I can on my plate, so when mum calls me on a Sunday, I can tell her I'm eating enough veggies! I love pasta, but I don't eat carbs a whole lot, and I love fruit.
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If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
