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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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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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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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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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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I have no disciple. I am the servant of the servant of Rama.
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The God idea is growing more impersonal and nebulous in proportion as the human mind is learning to understand natural phenomena and in the degree that science progressively correlates human and social events.
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They have agreed to donate another 2 million courses, that is 20 million doses, for use by affected countries who reported human cases to reduce morbidity and mortality and to delay the spread of the infection.
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I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played football, and when your father is telling stories about the game he played... Everybody wants to be like their father.
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Health is already a dominant sector in most societies and the one most guaranteed to grow.
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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)
