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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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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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
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One of the things I write about a bit in my Madam Secretary memoir is on Rwanda, where I was an instructed ambassador at the U.N., and my instructions were to not vote for increased forces there, and I didn't like my instructions. So I got up and called Washington and said, "Change my instructions," and they didn't.
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I remember being told very early on, 'Just say what they want to hear in the audition, and we'll figure it out later on.' So there have been a few tricky moments. I once said I could ride, when the truth is I'm terrified of horses, but I got the job!
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Let us not be carried away by the undisguised agitations of leaders who virtually asked people to take the law into their own hands.
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I've discreetly dated a lot of people - I once dated a billionaire, mostly because it was fun to say, "I'm dating a billionaire," but we did not have the same taste in music, and it was doomed.
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
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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.
