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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I was the kid who always hung back and then dropped the jokes when you least expected it. Timing was everything. My mouth sort of developed over time.
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Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.
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I want to move people the way Edith Piaf did.
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The ventures that keep things light and fun, easy to understand, that have a compelling story, a sexy retail product, will have an easier time getting people to rally around them and contribute. A start-up doing something that's difficult to communicate or doesn't offer any kind of retail product will have a tougher go at it.
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I think controversy is an interesting thing in that it usually goes hand in hand with starting conversations that surround taboo or under-discussed topics that need to be discussed and need to be less in the shadows, in my opinion.
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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.
