Barack Obama Quotes
Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Abe of Japan at Hiroshima Peace Memorial at Hiroshima Peace Memorial in Hiroshima, Japan (May 27, 2016)
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I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.
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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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I've never turned to anybody for advice and counsel. Even when I was a very small child, I had to stand on my feet because of the circumstances of those times, and somehow, the circumstances have remained more or less the same. I have to take my own decisions.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
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That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he will not put more on me than I can bear. And so I always say, 'Lord, I trust you with me.' So I figure, anything that happens in my life, I must be able to bear it, or he wouldn't allow it to happen.
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On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.
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From now back to the past, we can observe clearly that none of us is free.
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Street performing can be a great teaching ground and a barometer for what you're doing. It's rough and unforgiving at times, but it can be wild and fun and a real open canvas for your creativity.
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I don't mind being in studios, and I don't mind being out in nature. They're two different ways of making movies.
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I've never, ever taken a role for money purposes or for some bizarre notion of what may be the kind of career move that would open things up for me. If I don't believe in it, I can't do it because I won't be good in it if I don't believe in it.
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My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone.
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Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants. I'll have a desk like this in my parlor and white walls and a clean green blotter every Saturday night and a row of shining yellow pencils always sharpened for writing and a golden-brown bowl with a flower or some leaves or berries always in it and books . . . books . . . books. . . .
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Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Abe of Japan at Hiroshima Peace Memorial at Hiroshima Peace Memorial in Hiroshima, Japan (May 27, 2016)
