Barack Obama Quotes
If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.
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God isn't really interested in our batting averages.
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Young people have so many letdowns that people don't realize.
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Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.
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Things happen for a reason. I'm happy, but not I'm not satisfied with the things I'm doing.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
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Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?
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Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.
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Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.
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Evil report carries further than any applause.
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God keeps me grounded as well as my husband, Keith Douglas, who is such an inspiration to me. He's an author, speaker, and businessman. He's just a great husband and blessing.
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The federal government is far larger than the Founding Fathers ever intended it to be. We have racked up over $16 trillion of debt through wasteful spending, and it is time that we cut that waste and start reducing the size of our government.
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I cannot ever accept the kind of conditions where you can sacrifice someone’s rights.
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Plot is tremendously important to me: I can't stand books where nothing happens, and I can't imagine ever writing a novel without at least one murder.
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For the last five or six years the most important thing in my life has been my family.
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In recent years, America's wealthiest man has begun to tackle energy issues in a major way, investing millions in everything from high-capacity batteries to machines that can scrub carbon dioxide out of the air. With a personal fortune of $50 billion, Gates has the resources to give his favorite solutions a major boost.
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If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void
