Barack Obama Quotes
Africa’s progress will depend on development that truly lifts countries from poverty to prosperity - because people everywhere deserve the dignity of a life free from want.
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In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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I remember, as a kid, I'd follow the rooster and the chickens and watch what type of grass they'd eat. And me and my friends would eat that grass, like that was our lunch.
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
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In Valdosta, Ga., during a mini-tour event, a player named James Black bet me $20 he could put five golf balls in his mouth and then close his mouth all the way. I tried it but could get only two in there.
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Here's the thing that people don't understand: I don't really care. I've never been a careerist. It's not a strategy. I react to certain characters and story lines and specific mode of filmmaking.
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I'm a darned good listener.
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Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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Senator Wyden continues to be the Senate's truest champion of an open Internet.
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Admiration is great, but there is a line not to cross.
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When we were in Sweden, there was a fan that hid in a bin. I think one of the security guards saw and tried to take her out, and she went a bit crazy and started tackling them.
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Deny people something they want, over a longish period, and they naturally start disagreeing about precisely what it is they do want.
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A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
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Cæsar said to the soothsayer, 'The ides of March are come;' who answered him calmly, 'Yes, they are come, but they are not past.'
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Africa’s progress will depend on development that truly lifts countries from poverty to prosperity - because people everywhere deserve the dignity of a life free from want.
