Barack Obama Quotes
We'll build new ties of trade and of commerce, culture and education that unleash the potential of the Iraqi people.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
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In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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When I was in college, I learned to really take care of my body and figured out what works best for me and what doesn't work for me when it comes to my nutrition. That helped so much on the field because soccer is such a fitness-oriented game.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
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I think that we live in a highly specialized, technologically advanced society. Highly developed societies tend to have very remote understandings about what underlies our prosperity.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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I'd love to be in a feature film, and I don't just mean in a starring role - it could be a small part. And I would like to act in television, to do comedy and drama.
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In those days before hearing Charlie Parker and Dizzy, and before learning of the so-called bebop era--by the way, I have some thoughts about that word, "bebop"--my first jazz hero ever, jazz improvisor hero, was Lester Young. I was a big "Lester Young-oholic," and all of my buddies were Lester Young-oholics. We'd get together and dissect, analyze, discuss, and listen to Lester Young's solos for hours and hours and hours. He was our god.
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I don't really read magazines that much. I read comic books.
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I think Green Day's 'American Idiot' is probably the best comeback or mid-career record that any band has done.
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Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.
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People want their reason for living to be a singular thing, like a career or a relationship, because this makes an individual feel secure in the physical world. We don't fare well in the realm of the invisible - so telling someone that their purpose is multilayered and includes the arduous journey of discovering who they really are is not always the answer they want to hear. But consider the complexity of the question: "What is my reason for living?" How can that question not include a journey into the depths of your own life?
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We'll build new ties of trade and of commerce, culture and education that unleash the potential of the Iraqi people.
