Barack Obama Quotes
I think I have a pretty good take on popular culture that maybe makes up for the fact that I'm not a sound-bite politician for the nightly news.
Quotes to Explore
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way, and the gallery can support them - the outside part of the tree, where it is more about reaching the outside world, connecting with the outside world. That is the role of the gallery, no? Why does the artist have to do that?
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I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.
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Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.
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The creative scientific process is - It's kind of - It's a windy road that has a trajectory, but it's a slow trajectory.
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The end of my playing career was May 28, 2017. That, for me, was an historic day. I'll carry it with me forever. It will be hard to explain to people the feelings and emotions I felt that day.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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I shall always be a priest of love.
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I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts.
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona.
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Yes. I do about 70 shows a year, in the past year I've been to Italy, Australia, Japan, China, just about everywhere. I do it because I love singing. The money is a bonus.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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The whole notion of owning a person is so ludicrous, there's plenty of room to make fun.
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Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
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I think I have a pretty good take on popular culture that maybe makes up for the fact that I'm not a sound-bite politician for the nightly news.
