Barack Obama Quotes

Because of the internet and communications, the clash of cultures is much more direct. People feel, I think, less certain about their identity, less certain about economic security.

Barack Obama

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• We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.

  

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• Everyone romanticizes somebody.

  

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• The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.

  

  Barbara Deming
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• We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.

  

  Barbara Jordan
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• Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.

  

  Kate Walsh
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• My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest in just goofballing my way through, thinking, 'Ah, no one's ever going to see this anyway.'

  

  Lance Henriksen
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• All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.

  

  Vash Young
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• In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
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• It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.

  

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• Teaching children about entrepreneurship is much like imparting any other skill or piece of knowledge. You will provide them with ways to experience how entrepreneurship works, and you guide them toward the subjects or areas they seem to show an interest in.

  

  Naveen Jain
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• Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.

  

  Paracelsus
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• Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
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  • Go
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• In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.

  

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• You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.

  

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• The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
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• I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.

  

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• I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
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• The whole point of music is being able to share your story. I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
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• My parents couldn't afford a full time drama school, but I basically just did every class I could do, and followed every drama interest I could. When I was 15 or 16 I did drama courses.

  

  Christopher Parker
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• You can't let injuries dictate the outcome of a football game. You have to persevere and keep fighting. That is how we are. If there is a blade of grass to defend or take, we do it.

  

  DeAngelo Williams
  • Game
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• I like being full, every day, with stuff that I have to do.

  

  Louis C. K.

• Let us not judge others, because we simply don't know that had we lived their life, we might be exactly the same.

  

  Hal Elrod
  • Life
  • inspirational
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• Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

  

  Jim Rohn
  • People
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• Because of the internet and communications, the clash of cultures is much more direct. People feel, I think, less certain about their identity, less certain about economic security.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Identity