Barack Obama Quotes
The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.
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If you only do issue-based drama, you can become a boring wanker.
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.
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I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.
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I've been in government and politics my entire career, and while I try to keep a level head and a reasonable tone in my commentary, even I can lose my head sometimes and let anger bubble over and burst out. It feels gross, looks ugly, and leaves a lasting mark.
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I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.
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I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!
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Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase.
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In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.
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If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to. And if you want another kind of love I'll wear a mask for you.
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Any kind of loss helps when you talk about it.
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The mentality has taken over because of the way we've promoted things. It's been accepted, to live with fear, and to fear that it's going to be terrible, prepare for the worst. The meat and potato of our existence right now is influenced by what happened after 9/11 - we put our thinking into protecting borders.
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The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart.
