Barack Obama Quotes
Ideologies are not defeated with guns, they’re defeated by better ideas - a more attractive and compelling vision.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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It is certain that, because the negligent do not struggle against self, they never achieve peace of soul or do so tardily, and never possess any virtue in its fullness, while the energetic and industrious make notable advances on both fronts.
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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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Nonviolent action involves opposing the opponent's power, including his police and military capacity, not with the weapons chosen by him but by quite different means. Repression by the opponent is used against his own power position in a kind of political "ju-jitsu" and the very sources of his power thus reduced or removed, with the result that his political and military position is seriously weakened or destroyed.
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The cultural products of America from this period [ fifties and sixties] are like a vision of paradise or something. I find it utterly intoxicating.
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My best friend and I love to make fish faces.
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Anything or anyone that limits the dream you have for yourself and for your career is just to be dismissed. Do not keep that company, and do not hear those words.
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Ideologies are not defeated with guns, they’re defeated by better ideas - a more attractive and compelling vision.
