Barack Obama Quotes
And as I said last night, my number one priority in the coming two months is to try to facilitate a transition that ensures our president-elect is successful.
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I do try to structure everything in a way that's very much like a pop song. I try to keep the arrangements really simple, just to make everything essential.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.
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I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.
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That's everybody's goal, when they come to the league, is to win a Super Bowl. That's the ultimate goal.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
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Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.
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A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.
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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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There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.
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I used to imagine working as a White House staffer some day, so it was pretty amazing to be there... realizing another dream.
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Mostly, I just write about feelings that people can relate to. Because, yeah, I don't know who I am, and this is not my sound forever... I'm a human, so hopefully, I will always develop.
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But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.
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No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.
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In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bottom of my dress caught fire, and the grips became hysterical as they tried to pull me off the stake.
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I've got a mission to help people improve and massively change their lives and create breakthroughs, so I'm always looking for them and I'm the first guinea pig.
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I was always a very good student, 3.98 GPA... But once I found out I only had to take math and science for two years, I didn't take them junior or senior year. And I convinced my high school to give me actual credits for doing professional shows in Minneapolis... as work-study.
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Christ could be born a thousand times in Bethlehem – but all in vain until He is born in me.
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Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.
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I was a youngish man entering fatherhood when we wrote 'Woods,' a patchwork of classic fairy tales with an original tale sewn in. I had dedicated my libretto to my baby daughter.
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And as I said last night, my number one priority in the coming two months is to try to facilitate a transition that ensures our president-elect is successful.
