Barack Obama Quotes
We also think this is a reminder of the long tradition of bipartisan foreign policy that has been the hallmark of America at moments of greatest need, and that's the kind of spirit that we hope will be reflected in our administration.
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Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.
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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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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.
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I love love stories, no matter how dark.
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Music is something I can't stop. Whether people are going to hear it or not, I'm still going to make music.
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I had a crazy life for a teenager. I lived in New Jersey, but I'd go to Vermont for three weeks, join a commune, take pictures with the guy I was dating, come back home, and post photos.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.
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Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.
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I've always found the rain very calming.
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I don't think I could make a pop album.
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Gryffindor leads by eighty points to zero, and look at that Firebolt go! Potter’s really putting it through its paces now, see it turn — Chang’s Comet is just no match for it, the Firebolt’s precision-balance is really noticeable in these long —” “JORDAN! ARE YOU BEING PAID TO ADVERTISE FIREBOLTS? GET ON WITH THE COMMENTARY!
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I had no expectations of white people at all.
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I hate cynicism - it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere.
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Next to the virtue, the fun in this world is what we can least spare.
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We also think this is a reminder of the long tradition of bipartisan foreign policy that has been the hallmark of America at moments of greatest need, and that's the kind of spirit that we hope will be reflected in our administration.
