Barack Obama Quotes

We should not anticipate that every time countries come together that we are doing some revolutionary thing. Instead of hitting home runs, sometimes we're going to hit singles.

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• Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

  

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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 don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.

  

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• I'm a proud family man.

  

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• That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

  

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• Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.

  

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• I think the thing that I really wanna bring is that I have a full world of music and imagination and ideas that I want to create as an artist, and that's my main thing that I want to do.

  

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• I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.

  

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• Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.

  

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• Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

  

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• To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.

  

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• 'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.

  

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• At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.

  

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• A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.

  

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• You can cage the singer but not the song.

  

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• Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.

  

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• I certainly never saw myself as posh.

  

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• You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed.

  

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• The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not - which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams.

  

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• I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?

  

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• We haven't seen the turning point yet, but we're sticking to our bottom line, for the environment and the health of the country.

  

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• To succeed in the tech industry, you start businesses, make money, and make smart investments. But to succeed in the tech community, you do and build awesome things, are generous with your time and efforts, and make a point of making space for strangers - without any expectation of payback.

  

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• We should not anticipate that every time countries come together that we are doing some revolutionary thing. Instead of hitting home runs, sometimes we're going to hit singles.

  

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