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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I often have trouble falling asleep at night, so when I'm lying in bed I think up stories. That's where I do a lot of my thinking. I also get a lot of ideas while I'm reading - sometimes reading someone else's stories will make me think of one of my own.
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Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.
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It would be worth the while to look closely into the eye which has been open and seeing at such hours, and in such solitudes, its dull, yellowish, greenish eye. Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.
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It was only when I began modeling at 18 that I really began enjoying fashion and reading any fashion magazine I could get my hands on, and developing a profound respect for designers, fashion and how to wear it.
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Time management is really key for me.
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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.
