Barack Obama Quotes
Heaven forbid we've got a problem where we could have prevented a terrorist attack or apprehended someone who is engaged in dangerous activity, but we didn't do so simply because of inaction in the Senate.
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.
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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
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I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
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I think one of my first jokes - in the black community, there's people who have jokes about skin tone. People like, 'You so black, you purple.' 'You so black, you gotta smile so we can see you at night.'
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What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?
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My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.
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I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.
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I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.
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I think there's a lot of deep-rooted history in England with racing. Lots of Formula One teams are based there. Formula One is obviously a huge sport over in England and Europe.
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I liked George Weiss when he was with the Yankees. He loved the Old Timers' Day. He loved it. And he invited all these people to come, all these players to come.
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Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.
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If I were really rich, I would be flying places, I think.
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There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.
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I do not love to work out, but if I stick to exercising every day and put the right things in my mouth, then my diabetes just stays in check.
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He who knows himself is enlightened.
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I think love and beauty are what life is all about.
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What happens [in a coma] is that you lose the grounding of the self, you no longer have access to any feeling of your own existence.
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The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.
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Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!
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As you have invited me, I cannot come, for I have made a rule to decline all invitations; but I will come the next day.
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Heaven forbid we've got a problem where we could have prevented a terrorist attack or apprehended someone who is engaged in dangerous activity, but we didn't do so simply because of inaction in the Senate.
