Barack Obama Quotes
When you come after Americans, we go after you. It may take time, but we have long memories, and our reach has no limit.
Quotes to Explore
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Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn't let me give up on it. If soccer was too tough and I said, 'I'm going to quit,' he'd be like, 'No, you're going to try everything and keep going at it.'
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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Now, they hold the World Cup every year, so it's like any Super Series. It's boring. To me, it's very boring. I think the players will always attend the World Cup. But for the fans, and also for most players, the Olympics and Asian Games will become more important. Nobody will look forward to the World Cup with anticipation.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.
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We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.
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If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can't.
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The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
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As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.
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Even when I feared and detested Christianity, I was struck by its essential unity, which, in spite of its divisions, it has never lost. I trembled on recognizing the same unmistakable aroma coming from the writings of Dante and Bunyan, Thomas Aquinas and William Law.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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I'd get kicked out of buildings all day long, people would rip up my business card in my face. It's a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it.
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There's a curse on me as there's a curse on the Larkin name. The curse comes back, again and again, to taunt me! Ronan! Kilty! Tomas! And now me! What are the Irish among men? Are we lepers? Are we a blight? Will there ever be an end to our tears?
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When you come after Americans, we go after you. It may take time, but we have long memories, and our reach has no limit.
