Barack Obama Quotes
We may have occasion in our lifetime to once again rise up in defense of our freedom, and pay the wages of war.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
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At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.
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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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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.
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I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.
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My childhood was appalling.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona.
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Even one's own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There's nothing 'natural' about one's home these days. The furnishings, the fabrics, the furniture, the appliances, the TV, and all the electronic equipment - we're living inside commercials.
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He plants trees to benefit another generation.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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I don't like being stagnant. I want to continue to grow and just be better at what I do, and the only way to do that is to keep stepping outside of your comfort zone.
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Many of us, both Jews and Christians, want the public square to be pluralistic, which is neither partisan nor naked.
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Every song is personal, but 'Ohio,' on my first EP, was on another level. I really opened up about the lack of relationship I had with my father. We stopped talking about four years ago, and I haven't had a father figure in my life since.
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Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way.
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American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.
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We may have occasion in our lifetime to once again rise up in defense of our freedom, and pay the wages of war.
