Barack Obama Quotes
I want to reduce America's deficit by cutting spending that we don't need but also by asking the wealthy to do a little bit more so that we can invest in things like research and technology that are the key to a 21st century economy.
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I'm cranky.
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Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.
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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend.
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For a long time, I said I didn't want to model. I was a dancer.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.
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I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
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I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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I love snacks, but I'm kind of growing out of them. I'm getting into fruit and Clif Bars.
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When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.
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If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effects, go on taking it. But if it's not working, or not working well enough, or if you have side effects you don't like, talk to your doctor about an alternative approach.
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'There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.'
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I really want people to understand that nobody is perfect and that things happen in life beyond our control.
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If I could prove by logic that you would die in five minutes, I should be sorry you were going to die, but my sorrow would be very much mitigated by pleasure in the proof.
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The next generation is going to have to understand that Social Security is just one leg of a stool. We need to actually bring back that savings incentive, and the only way you're going to be able to do that is if you have a job.
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My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.
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I want to reduce America's deficit by cutting spending that we don't need but also by asking the wealthy to do a little bit more so that we can invest in things like research and technology that are the key to a 21st century economy.
