Barack Obama Quotes
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of you, we are ending these wars in a way that will make America stronger and the world more secure. Because of you.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
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During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.
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We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
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Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
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Boy, I'll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days.
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A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
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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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Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
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I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
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I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
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I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.
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All people believe in America, jobs, creating energy here, not being dependent on foreign energy sources.
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The world that seemed so various and new, well, it does contract. One's burning desire to investigate human behavior, and to make, or imply, statements about it, does fall off. And so one does find that early works are full of energy and also full of vulgarity, crudity, and incompetence, and later works are more carefully finished, and in that sense better literary products. But . . . there's often a freshness that is missing in later works--for every gain there's a loss. I think it evens out in that way.
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So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of you, we are ending these wars in a way that will make America stronger and the world more secure. Because of you.
