Barack Obama Quotes
As president, I'm committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.
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Sometimes a role might be difficult on my throat.
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.
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The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
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I can't wait to meet Jennifer Hudson, Tamyra Gray, George Huff, Ruben Studdard, and I love me some Clay Aiken.
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You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.
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If a great outfit gets you one step closer to feeling good about yourself, then it's worth every penny.
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The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
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I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.
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The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America.
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The thing about the South is we accept our history. We don't push it under the rug.
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Some country is going to be the clean energy superpower of the 21st century and create millions of jobs and businesses. It’s probably going to be either China, Germany, or America. I want it to be us! We invent the technology, we should make it and use it and export it, which will help to grow our economy.
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We're not trying to top ourselves with each record, obviously.
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Plenty of church members are shaky about what they believe, while not many are shaken by what they believe.
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There's no people like show people.
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I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.
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As president, I'm committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.
