Barack Obama Quotes
Know that America is a friend of each nation and every man, woman, and child who seeks a future of peace and dignity...[For] we are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth.
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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You won't see me at a microphone singing and tapping my foot. I spend a lot of money on sets, costumes and sound. I believe people deserve a show. I'm a singer, musician, dancer. I work hard, and I'm soaking wet when I come off.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and delicate task of setting in complete and successful operation a political body based upon principles so hazardously asserted and so gloriously maintained.
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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
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We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.
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The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.
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'Ugly Betty' taught me everything about fashion.
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If there's no inner peace, people can't give it to you. The husband can't give it to you. Your children can't give it to you. You have to give it to you.
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Here's Your Sign Reloaded (2003)
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The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us. It wants to come out to the surface and express itself.
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Know that America is a friend of each nation and every man, woman, and child who seeks a future of peace and dignity...[For] we are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth.
