Barack Obama Quotes
The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject.
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I was never supposed to make it to Congress. I was a staff person.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.
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I have always wanted to work with Lingusamy, as he is a master of commercial cinema. I have always admired his etching of female characters.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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I hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side.
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I'm probably the wealthiest Indian in America.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that.
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Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
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We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
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A storytelling device teaches. I hate to say it that way, because kids tune out. I don't teach on purpose, but I'm glad that it happens sometimes.
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I'm sure other people in the business have considered reasons why they're doing what they're doing, but I do think that if you're gay you have a responsibility to come out.
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The opening lines of a book are so important. You really need to somehow charm your reader. If you can't get her attention in the first pages, you may have lost her. There has to be an ambience.
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The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.
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I always carry a Tom Ford lipstick and Tachta face blotters to get me through the day.
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I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece of cake and it really wasn't. I have drawers full of - or I did have - drawers full of rejection slips.
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Don't look back and ask, Why? Look ahead and ask, Why not?
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Yes, I do agree we need health care reform; however, this bill badly misses the mark. Congress can and must do better for the American people.
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The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system.
