Barack Obama Quotes
We're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics.
Quotes to Explore
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
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The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough times in the studio in the past, but after four weeks most of the material would have been recorded. This time it seemed like it just goes on and on.
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The blockchain does one thing: It replaces third-party trust with mathematical proof that something happened.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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When you have a 'solution thinking mindset' - and choose to focus 80% of your thoughts/words on solutions - you will not only be heading more speedily to long-term success, but you will immediately feel better in the moment.
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Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
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When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
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Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.
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Greening the globalised manufacturing and sourcing will be the single biggest help multinationals could make to the tough pollution control in China and other developing countries.
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So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it.
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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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History has proven that art depicting black people cannot be disentangled from the political implications that such art has on their lives. As Africans were being stripped from the continent and sailed across the Atlantic to the Western world, depictions of black people in Western art changed in order to further render them racialized caricatures.
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In spite of what most assume, it is surprisingly tough to make the mind and body work together as a unit.
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Anytime you get to join a group of people you admire and respect, you want to keep those doors open.
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We're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics.
