Barack Obama Quotes
That's why I stand here tonight. Because for two hundred and thirty two years, at each moment when that promise was in jeopardy, ordinary men and women - students and soldiers, farmers and teachers, nurses and janitors - found the courage to keep it alive.
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I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
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Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.
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There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.
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If you're on a budget, Sweetgreen is a new chain of salad bars that are very good but inexpensive. You choose from a menu or customise your own, with some protein, a healthy salad and a great dressing.
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Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.
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I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.
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If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.
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Punishment for putting patients at risk ought to reflect the gravity of manufacturing, distributing or selling counterfeit medications.
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I opened about a dozen employment centers for Arab women across Israel during my two years as minister of economy.
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There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.
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It's amazing what it opens up in women when you tell them you've just played a midwife.
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That's why I stand here tonight. Because for two hundred and thirty two years, at each moment when that promise was in jeopardy, ordinary men and women - students and soldiers, farmers and teachers, nurses and janitors - found the courage to keep it alive.
