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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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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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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Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.
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I'm really fascinated by lingos and colloquialisms that are outmoded and have gone by the wayside. I love the way people spoke in the '30s, and the amazing slang of the mid-'60s and '70s.
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I'm raising a child, and it's public. The media creates these dramas, and that's not what's happening in my life.
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My first summer in college I worked in a fruit fly lab where I had two jobs: dissect the fruit fly larvae brains and incinerate the old tubes of flies.
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I do rock climbing and tennis.
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Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.
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I met Malcolm the month before he was killed. He deeply changed my mind about America.
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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.
