Barack Obama Quotes
Whatever decisions I make are going to be based first on a strategy to keep us safe and then we'll figure out how to resource it.
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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
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My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.
Gail Devers -
If you will be the best that you can be right where you are, God will promote you and give you more.
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The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.
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It's something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself.
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Yep, my body is doing good and everything feels good and I'm ready.
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What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the Mass away from the contamination and death of the Worst, in their own and other races.
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Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
Garry Kasparov
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Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
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Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.
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If you're doing the same job every day, there's room for error.
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When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.
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The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.
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People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other.
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I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.
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I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.
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It's important to be true to the events, but the most important thing is to get to the essence of the experience. Not to be bogged down in an academic way by a notion of the truth. First of all, the truth is an illusive and spurious concept.
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Whatever decisions I make are going to be based first on a strategy to keep us safe and then we'll figure out how to resource it.
