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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New York is our home.
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It wasn't like the spare rooms of immigrants - packed to the rafters with all that they have ever possessed, no matter how defective or damaged, mountains of odds and ends - the stand testament to the fact that they have things now, where before they had nothing.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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No experience is wasted. Everything in life is happening to grow you up, to fill you up, to help you become more of who you were created to be.
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In all teaching there must be a fusion of authority as an adult providing a stable framework for the children in one's care, and humility as another human being ready to educate an equal who may turn out to be a superior.
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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.
