Barack Obama Quotes
We've got an extraordinarily complex tax system that's full of loopholes that are exploited by special interests. I'd like to see those loopholes closed.
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Good sports facilities are a blessing.
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A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
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Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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There is more to life than show business.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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The fundamental problem is not that Trump has access to the nuclear launch codes, but that they exist at all.
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If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.
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The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.
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Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
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I'm about my characters.
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Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.
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I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.
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So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.
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If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.
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Truth never pleads or compromises or wavers. It invites and awaits your acceptance.
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As to each of us, the knowledge that we are here but briefly and a nonnegotiable limit is set to our expected time may even be necessary as the incentive to number our days and make them count.
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The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher taxes, sluggish growth, and a jobless recovery.
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Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.
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I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America stands for.
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Whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest.
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Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
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If there is a sort of national American emotion I would call it optimism. If there is an English one I would call it embarrassment - not even pessimism - just sheer shame, embarrassment and confusion.
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We've got an extraordinarily complex tax system that's full of loopholes that are exploited by special interests. I'd like to see those loopholes closed.
