Barack Obama Quotes
I believe that for all our imperfections, we are full of decency and goodness, and that the forces that divide us are not as strong as those that unite us.
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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I'm past my wooing days now. See, I am an honest person. If I like a girl, I will go and tell her.
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Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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America preaches integration and practices segregation.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
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I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'
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For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.
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I will say this about the Miz: Even though I don't like his wrestling style, he is a very hard worker. I have a huge amount of respect for him, and I want him to do well.
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I try to get the best performance an actor can give.
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The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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I'm nearly always at home at the weekends; that's important for every working woman today, not just me. I don't encourage people to come in at the weekend and work; I encourage people to go home and create great families.
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Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
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Suggestion can shape dreams, and the dreams themselves then operate as action. A strong dream can be a more significant psychic action than any physical experience, and it can change the course of the personality completely.
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I always know I'm going to lose my job. It's either going to be canceled next week or next year or nine years from now, but I always know my job is going to go.
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I didn't really start appreciating Picasso until a few years back. I didn't like him at all. But now I can see this world is crazy.
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I believe that for all our imperfections, we are full of decency and goodness, and that the forces that divide us are not as strong as those that unite us.
