Barack Obama Quotes
We have known for decades that our survival depends on finding new sources of energy. Yet we import more oil today than ever before.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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I've had an extraordinary life as a dancer. You tour the world, you see all the great capitals of the world, the beautiful old opera houses all over Europe - you go everywhere. As a teenager, I would always say, 'I can't believe this is happening to little me,' because it was always a dream to dance.
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The only morality I'm interested in is the morality between your ears, between each player's ears, because that's the interesting thing to me.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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Working is hard and distracts from having fun.
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Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
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As I went between the Islamic Society in my college and university, the mosque, the halal takeaway, and visited the homes of my male Muslim friends, it was entirely possible for me to get through my day without interacting in any meaningful way with a single non-Muslim.
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I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.
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Some children are tackling tough times without the support that can help them because the adults in their life are scared to ask.
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I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.
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No matter how well intended our country is, we cannot expect other nations to trust us as much as we trust ourselves.
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It is very rewarding to serve the country by helping President Bush work to reduce the drug problem.
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In the philanthropy game, you're going for different outcomes: saving childhood lives, having kids grow up - because they don't have malnutrition or disease - that they achieve their full potential. We take for Warren Buffett things that, because he's very intelligent about the world but doesn't get to go out in Africa and see what we see, we've taken and say to him where we stand and it's basically a very positive report that his gift has made a phenomenal difference.
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I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.
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I had bags of energy as a kid.
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We have known for decades that our survival depends on finding new sources of energy. Yet we import more oil today than ever before.
