Barack Obama Quotes
If you want to know who we are, who America is, how we respond to evil-that's it: selflessly, compassionately, unafraid.
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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I love doing what I do. I love asking questions. I love being in the mix.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
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I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment, and how easy it is to fix some of those things.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
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From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you.
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I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.
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I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people become the ambassador to Liechtenstein or the deputy undersecretary of commerce.
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The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy.
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We must frankly confess, then, using our empirical common sense and ordinary practical prejudices, that in the world that actually is, the virtues of sympathy, charity, and non-resistance may be, and often have been, manifested in excess. ... You will agree to this in general, for in spite of the Gospel, in spite of Quakerism, in spite of Tolstoi, you believe in fighting fire with fire, in shooting down usurpers, locking up thieves, and freezing out vagabonds and swindlers.
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I think when you're making an album, as the songs are piling up, one of the good things about it is that you will often write the song that you need.
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There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work.
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Now in the mountains and fields of America, on its flatlands and in its jungles, in the wilderness or in the traffic of cities, on the banks of its great oceans or rivers, this world is beginning to tremble. Anxious hands are stretched forth, ready to die for what is theirs, to win those rights that were laughed at by one and all for 500 years.
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If you want to know who we are, who America is, how we respond to evil-that's it: selflessly, compassionately, unafraid.
