Barack Obama Quotes
What I want to focus on tonight is the state of our democracy. Understand, democracy does not require uniformity but democracy does require a basic sense of solidarity - the idea that for all our outward differences, we're all in this together; that we rise or fall as one.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
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My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.
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When you have a 'solution thinking mindset' - and choose to focus 80% of your thoughts/words on solutions - you will not only be heading more speedily to long-term success, but you will immediately feel better in the moment.
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I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.
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I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.
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A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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The tracks on 'Sleep' were recorded live to 2-track. I did a fadeout or two of them, but that's really it.
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There's been an unfortunate history of efforts to make sure Florida's votes don't count. Given that history, it's clear why people here would be especially concerned about efforts undertaken by Super PACs and the corporations that fund them to dictate the outcome of elections.
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I'm a lot luckier than most people, although I used to look at it the other way around-that so many people seemed luckier than me.
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A heartsong doesn't have to be a song in your heart. It doesn't have to be talking about love and peace. It can just be your message. It can be your feeling. Some people might even call it a conscience, even though that's not really what it is. It's your message, what you feel like you need to do.
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You need to understand something, you drink deeply from wells of freedom and liberty and opportunity that you did not dig. You eat lavishly from banquet tables prepared for you by your ancestors. You sit under the shade of trees that you did not plant or cultivate or care for. You have a choice in life, you can just sit back, getting fat, dumb, and happy, consuming all the blessings put before you, or it can metabolize inside of you, become fuel to get you into the fight, to make this democracy real, to make it true to its words that we can be a nation of liberty and justice for all.
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I think we should have unisex bathrooms.
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Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience.
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What I want to focus on tonight is the state of our democracy. Understand, democracy does not require uniformity but democracy does require a basic sense of solidarity - the idea that for all our outward differences, we're all in this together; that we rise or fall as one.
