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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The way that you remember your life, it's never linear. You have flashes of different moments of your life, and the flashes aren't equal; they have different styles.
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The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they are singing in chorus, saluting or obeying orders.
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I could not be one of those actors who stays in character all day long. I'd go mad.
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I don't want music to be a job for me; I want it to be something I'm doing for fun. As long it's not a job, then you're straight.
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On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself.
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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.
