Barack Obama Quotes
The president and the executive branch are always going to have greater latitude and greater authority when it comes to protecting America because sometimes you just have to respond quickly and not everything that is a danger can be publicized and be subject to open debate, but there have to be some guardrails.
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I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don't understand that the government that we have today is not what the people want as a government.
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There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy, and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.
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Everybody eats a little differently, but the more where you are aware of what you put in your body and how it affects your performance, the better opportunities you have. And that's what I'm trying to do.
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I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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What is important is to have values in life. What's important is how you are, not how you look.
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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Don't wait to be hunted to hide, that's always been my motto.
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Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.
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Writing has been handed to me on a plate.
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We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage.
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I don't understand what the president's Donald Trump position is on Russia. But I can tell you what my position is on Russia: Russia is a great danger to a lot of its neighbors, and Vladimir Putin has as one of his core objectives fracturing NATO, which is one of the greatest military alliances in the history of the world.
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The president and the executive branch are always going to have greater latitude and greater authority when it comes to protecting America because sometimes you just have to respond quickly and not everything that is a danger can be publicized and be subject to open debate, but there have to be some guardrails.
