Barack Obama Quotes
People have a tendency to blame politicians when things don't work, but as I always tell people, you get the politicians you deserve. And if you don't vote and you don't pay attention, you'll get policies that don't reflect your interest.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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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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A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.
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I'm just trying to approach what I make with as much respect and research as I can, and just make it with a good heart.
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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.
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When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
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I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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I had problems walking, so I knew I couldn't do any running. I couldn't do it. It's real swollen.
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It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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My experience in decision-making has shown that patterns are tough to break. In the military, we study an opponent, looking for gaps, flaws, or weaknesses that can be exploited. Successful leaders at all levels in all disciplines conduct this kind of analysis.
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I have some things that I need to deal with and address right now and so I have decided to leave Maroon 5. During this time, I do not want to be a distraction to my bandmates. I wish them the absolute best.
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People have a tendency to blame politicians when things don't work, but as I always tell people, you get the politicians you deserve. And if you don't vote and you don't pay attention, you'll get policies that don't reflect your interest.
