Barack Obama Quotes
I think that whenever you have got an incoming president of the other side it takes a while for people to reconcile themselves with that new reality.
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Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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I don't find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipolar or Schizophrenia.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.
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It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
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As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.
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I go out and speak to women's groups all the time, and I say, 'Guys, you gotta laugh and find the humor in things. You gotta pass it on.'
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
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The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
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For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
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You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.
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These memories sustained him, but not so easily. Too often they reminded him of where he was when he last summoned them. They lay on the far side of a great divide in time, as significant as B.C. and A.D. Before prison, before the war, before the sight of a corpse became a banality.
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People talk very much about, 'What can we do with the orchestra in the 21st century?' We should think about the 21st century, of course.
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Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed.
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A life sentence without parole protects public safety while sparing us the barbarity of killing our own. It teaches our children that violence will be punished, but not by emulating the violent. This seems eminently more consistent with American ideals than continuing to share the killing stage with some of the world's worst human rights violators.
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I think that whenever you have got an incoming president of the other side it takes a while for people to reconcile themselves with that new reality.
