Barack Obama Quotes
If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void
Quotes to Explore
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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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I think every country has to recognize its competitive advantage and liberate its strengths to be a partner in global trade, and that's the only way you can survive and succeed.
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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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I can't forget the scene in 'My Night at Maud's' when the very pious engineer in the business suit decides to sit on Maud's bed while she is lying under the covers with only a T-shirt on, determined to seduce him.
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If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.
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I think every actor has those performances they've seen, the person who made them realize that's what they wanted to do.
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Rapper, just puts so much connotation on who you are and what is exposed. Even if a lot of it is out-dated, people still bring a lot to it.
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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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
