Barack Obama Quotes
Those are the ladies sitting in church. And in the same way that they might feel a joy and release on Sunday, they are still going to work on Monday. And that's who I was listening to during this process. And if at the end of my presidency they feel like I did a pretty good job, then I'll feel pretty good.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.
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Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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I think I need security.
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When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
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If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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You win as a team, you lose as a team, you also do so many things together.
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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.
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Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people.
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
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If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
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The "seriousness" of a mathematical theorem lies, not in its practical consequences, which are usually negligible, but in the significance of the mathematical ideas which it connects.
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When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.
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Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.
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Those are the ladies sitting in church. And in the same way that they might feel a joy and release on Sunday, they are still going to work on Monday. And that's who I was listening to during this process. And if at the end of my presidency they feel like I did a pretty good job, then I'll feel pretty good.
