Barack Obama Quotes
People need to remember we are the governing party because we have diversity of opinion in our party. We're not pure. We have moderates and we have more progressives.
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I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.
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It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
Garry Kasparov -
I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.
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Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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The crown must constantly earn citizens' appreciation, respect and trust.
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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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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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It's important to be able to keep things fresh, no matter what age you are, or how many years you've been in the industry.
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I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen.
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Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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They hate whom they fear.
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While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.
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My mama never wore a pair of pants when I was growing up, and now that's all she wears. It was so funny for me when I first started seeing Mama wear pants. It was like it wasn't Mama. Now I've bought her many a pantsuit because she just lives in them.
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A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage-market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.
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A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the manager's boss as it applies to the manager's subordinates
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People need to remember we are the governing party because we have diversity of opinion in our party. We're not pure. We have moderates and we have more progressives.
