Barack Obama Quotes
This is our moment...while we breathe, we hope. And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can.
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.
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I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.
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Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.
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I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.
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Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.
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The bubble, as investing phenomenon, has been well studied ever since the 17th-century tulip bulb frenzy. Its counterpart in bear markets is not well understood.
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I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
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I like people that are not frightened to say what they think.
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All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have heldReality down fluttering to a bench.
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This is our moment...while we breathe, we hope. And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can.
