Barack Obama Quotes
Ideologies are not defeated with guns, they’re defeated by better ideas - a more attractive and compelling vision.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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I don't believe in miracles.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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I've learnt that it is important not to go over the top with aggression, because then either you are going to miss a lot of games, or you are not going to be concentrating on the game you are playing.
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When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.
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You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
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Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.
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Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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I once rode a motorcycle across Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco!
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The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
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Going 3-13 is not acceptable.
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I've hosted the Soul Train awards, the American Music Awards... and I had my own talk show. So if I can't host by now, what the hell can I do?
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I'm not promoting anything totally unhealthy because I'm not unhealthy. But I am promoting an ideal that's not attainable, and for that I have to feel guilty. I have to assume some blame for that.
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The feather was a thing, when I was a kid, we used to find feathers around the house, and whenever we found them, my mum used to say it was my nan leaving them around for us to find, so that was quite sweet.
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Of course you want to be good and you want to do the best you can, but I am inspired by great writing. If there's something about the script, that's what I go for, although I know that that doesn't always translate because sometimes it's about the vision of the director.
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Hermès and my own brand share the same philosophy, the same vision of women, but the two aren't identical.
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When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.
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Ideologies are not defeated with guns, they’re defeated by better ideas - a more attractive and compelling vision.
