Barack Obama Quotes
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There's something about these steps [in Oval Office] and thinking about everybody who's walked here and all the business that's been done here.
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I'm cranky.
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To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.
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With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.
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I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.
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The eyes of the world are fixed on the U.S. to see if we have the political courage and moral sense to solve our debt crisis.
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
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In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.
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Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.
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Fuseproject was founded in 1999, and the notion behind it, which is alive and kicking today, is fusing different disciplines. Our teams are absolutely incredible at their own discipline, but most importantly, they're incredible at partnering with each other.
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I used to play hooky from school so I could watch cooking shows.
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Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about.
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Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.
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I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.
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American society loves to prop people up and then take them down.
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Albert Camus's 'La Peste' - 'The Plague' - had an enormous impact on me when I read it in high school French class, and I chose my senior yearbook quote from it. In college, I wrote a philosophy class paper on Camus and Sartre, and again chose my yearbook quote from 'La Peste.'
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I'm afraid to go to sleep; I don't like to lose control of myself. I don't like chauffeurs, either. I like to be in charge of my own destiny.
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I think that Instagram suits me. People know I like to use it all the time.
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I once terminated a partnership with a chap who proved--unreliable. As a matter of fact, I terminated him.
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I don't want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going.
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There's something about these steps [in Oval Office] and thinking about everybody who's walked here and all the business that's been done here.
