Barack Obama Quotes
In late January 2016, as quoted in 'The Obama Doctrine' by Jeffrey Goldberg, in The Atlantic (April 2016)
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I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.
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A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
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Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.
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My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.
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Just know that as long as your family thinks you're amazing, then you really are amazing.
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Most of my best games were when I felt crap - I could hardly move on the morning of the World Cup semi-final in 1990 - but there's a thing called adrenaline that gets you through.
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One of the great joys in life is reading, yet it's the main thing people say they don't have time to do.
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À quelle heure, s'il vous plaît?
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Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.
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To have won a place in his heart among all those he has mentored and created, itself is a distinction.
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The Internet is the best thing that could have happened to China.
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Fifteen years ago, I suffered a stroke, which caused me to lose my speech. Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back? I work with a speech therapist twice a week.
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Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command.
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A television job that's working is the best job in the world.
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Part of the creative journey for me was not to come up the conventional route. I didn't go through drama school. I chose not to. I came from a very working-class area, a child of Nigerian immigrants.
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I still like the physicality of papers.
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I really love that idea of the essay as an investigation. That's all anyone's life is.
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I went through a rebellious phase, and was super into doing crazy hair things. I did only wear black for my junior year of high school. I was one of those kids.
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The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
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I never look at the size of the film when I'm looking for a part.
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For April sobs while these are so glad April weeps while these are so gay,- Weeps like a tired child who had, Playing with flowers, lost its way.
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When you play, it's like you know that there are people out there who are hearing it for the first time, and I think that's really important.
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In late January 2016, as quoted in 'The Obama Doctrine' by Jeffrey Goldberg, in The Atlantic (April 2016)
