Barack Obama Quotes

The most important thing we can do is to make sure that we've got very high standards, we expect a lot out of all of our young people, and we make sure that we have the best teachers possible in every classroom.

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Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It's no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywhere near a World Cup, an Olympics, or even the U.S. national team without them. I have never forgotten that, and I never will.
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.
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The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
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I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.
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I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.
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Getting some distance allowed me to develop a hunger for India and to come back and explore it in a way I wouldn't have had I been living here. And that probably made me more political as well.
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Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.
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People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while.
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We were the 'chosen people,' chosen to be killed?
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The most important thing we can do is to make sure that we've got very high standards, we expect a lot out of all of our young people, and we make sure that we have the best teachers possible in every classroom.