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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Help each other. Love everyone. Every leaf. Every ray of light. Forgive.
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People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.
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I'm a bad interview because I want to always feel like I'm being totally honest, but at the same time, I'm absolutely paranoid. That combination results in a lot of spaces.
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One consequence of racism and segregation is that many American whites know little or nothing about the daily lives of African Americans. Black America's least-understood communities are those poor, hyper-segregated places we once called ghettos. These neighborhoods are not far away, but they might as well be on the moon.
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It's not about if I can! I'm doing this because I want to... If I have to die fighting for it, then I die.
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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.
