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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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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I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.
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I like solitude. I'm very good at being disconnected. I do a lot of disappearing. People who know me go, 'Oh yeah, Mailman, she's gone into her cave again.' I'm like that, a bit of a hibernating bear. Like that crocodile that just sits there in the water and doesn't do much. I was always a bit of a dreamer as a kid, so that hasn't changed.
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The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.
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I don't find it a struggle to maintain a healthy diet now as my palate has changed. I don't crave rich food.
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You know, you only get one family, and you have to make it work.
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When you say sorry it creates a better working relationship.
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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.
