Barack Obama Quotes
There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black President.
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My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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Congress seems to be very good at doing nothing.
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I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.
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In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
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I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
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I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
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I want the single player experience.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
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I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying.
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I don't need security detail; I don't need anything special. I just walk around, and I can do that, and that's a real luxury when you're in my industry.
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If the spaces open up in the attack, then of course I'm willing to take it because I love to get involved; I love to get crosses in. I love to do combinations and just bring a different aspect to our game.
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For me the march was a labor - a labor of love - but I was busy handing out flyers for the National Association of Black Social Workers, so I really wasn't standing in the crowd listening and observing. I was busy.
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I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made President.
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There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black President.
