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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No two wars are identical.
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If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.
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But the thing we do know is whatever it costs to save and protect American lives in this conflict, we're going to spend.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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I had breast cancer.
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I happened to have the privilege of serving in Congress. It will be 16 years at the end of this term. And I think I made a difference here on important issues.
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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.
