Barack Obama Quotes
We remember the surge and we remember the Awakening -- when the abyss of chaos turned toward the promise of reconciliation. By battling and building block by block in Baghdad, by bringing tribes into the fold and partnering with the Iraqi army and police, you helped turn the tide toward peace.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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You honestly can't go wrong with All Saints. I live in their leather!
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I don't read newspapers, and I've said I don't watch the news. I love books, but I don't read much. What I do is I get people to read to me, and I put the stories in my head.
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I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.
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Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
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I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.
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Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.
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Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
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I got to train with some of the best and have critics like Oscar de la Renta and Calvin Klein. As a student under Calvin Klein, my project was to make a coat, and then years later, I was hired at Calvin, by Calvin, to design coats for him. It came full circle!
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I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.
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Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.
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I write just because the fire of my emotion is burning. Had I not, I would not have been able to find peace.
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I feel it is my duty to take every single opportunity I get to advocate for peace, no matter the circumstances of those meetings.
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I think the climate has been changing for billions of years.
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For Punjabis like me, we have to work a little harder on our body.
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We remember the surge and we remember the Awakening -- when the abyss of chaos turned toward the promise of reconciliation. By battling and building block by block in Baghdad, by bringing tribes into the fold and partnering with the Iraqi army and police, you helped turn the tide toward peace.
