Barack Obama Quotes
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.
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I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.
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Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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It was cool to meet Cris Carter. That dude has some of the best hands to have played the game.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
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I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'
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What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?
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I think we need to look for any opening we can to avoid a war and we shouldn't pass up any opportunity for resolution.
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When Corporate America finds a Jayson Blair in its midst, the standard operating procedure is to circle the wagons and deny that any form of liability extends up the chain of command.
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The coward only threatens when he is safe.
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Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.
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People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.
