Barack Obama Quotes

The world doesn't just revolve around you. There's a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit.

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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.
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I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the Carter Family. I've never suffered stage fright.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.
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McCain I'd vote against under any circumstance.
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I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.
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The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.
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To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement.
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The law, as an institution, avoids justice, subverts it, just as often as it sees it done.
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In the world of comedy, having a partner is not the most unusual thing.
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The world doesn't just revolve around you. There's a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit.