Barack Obama Quotes
We can never say it often or loudly enough: Immigrants and refugees revitalize and renew America.
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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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I came across 'The Song of Achilles' by Madeline Miller in one of the most romantic ways one can find a story. I was digging through a pile of used books at my local library when my hand gravitated toward its brilliant teal and glistening gold cover.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to do the typical sitcom-type humor. I'd want to do stuff like go bowling with pineapples.
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On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy.
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There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.
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The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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I tried snowboarding, and that scared the hell out of me.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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Even those that hate Hillary admit she is a work horse and not a show horse. She gets down into the nuts and bolts and figures out, 'What's the policy, what's the substance?'
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At tea time, all the noise, greed and aggressiveness of the '80s can be drowned out. For 45 minutes, anyway.
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Black America has always felt itself divided into two classes: the mucky-mucks and the folk.
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What the fossil record does do is to force us to contemplate our place on the planet. We are but one species of several hominids that inhabited Planet Earth, and like our distant cousins who went extinct fairly recently, our time on Planet Earth is also finite.
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In fact, I don't even know myself. That is the big secret of the story. That there is no story.
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We can never say it often or loudly enough: Immigrants and refugees revitalize and renew America.
