Barack Obama Quotes
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I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House.
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It's very interesting, the dynamics of popularity. When you do something all the time, you don't worry about whether it's trendy or not.
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I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'
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I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
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I am a simple Buddhist monk - no more, no less.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.
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If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.
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I don't have any outside view of myself, and if I did, I would probably be creatively inhibited. I just write in the way that I write.
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I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don't.
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Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.
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I wear glasses because I need them; I don't wear them to be the fashion victim, I have to have them because I have a stigma in one eye and I'm blind in another. But I make it fun, I make it acceptable to fit in society; I've always worn crazy, goofy glasses, it's just what I do. This is who I am. Love me or leave me.
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I'm pushing - on a bipartisan basis, actually - to get federal support for the creation of high-quality textbooks that can be downloaded for free on the Internet.
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I've always been attracted to action stuff.
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I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.
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There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.
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I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House.
