Barack Obama Quotes
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.

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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.
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I have made enough money to secure my family and that is all I care about.
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I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.
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I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.
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My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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I manage my business; politicians are doing their business. I can only work within their rules and regulations. I can't pick up a political fight.
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My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.
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The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
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I connect with kids easily. They bring out the maternal side in me.
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During the 1960 election, I saw Richard Nixon as the winner.
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Just to have the opportunity to play an American in America is a dream come true for me.
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I think if we get freedom for women, then they are probably going to do a lot of things that I wish they wouldn't do. But it seems to me that isn't our business to say what they should do with it. It is our business to see that they get it.
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There is nothing there. What you see is not what you see. What you see is nothing. Nothing but shapes, lines, colors. What you see is whats in your mind. What you see is something somebody told you to look for. Look out for anything you see! Watch it! Watch out! Take care! Don’t leap before you look out.
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The law does not require a man to cease to be a man, and act without regard to consequences, when he becomes a juror.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.