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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
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I want the single player experience.
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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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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.
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On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two.
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One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
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I don't worry about my offense. If I get good, open looks the ball will go in. I just worry about how I'm going to help this team win games by playing on the other end.
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I like the idea of getting to dress up, like to do a Barry Lyndon or something about the Napoleonic period, the grand army retreating from Moscow. I understand that there's a craft to acting and a lot of people work hard at it. I just know that music is my first love. I love music, I love film, and I love clothes.
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Higher education cannot be a luxury reserved just for a privileged few. It is an economic necessity for every family. And every family should be able to afford it.
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Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads.
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But for the time being and this will run through today and tomorrow and maybe through the weekend.
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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.
