Barack Obama Quotes
You look at something like health care, the Affordable Care Act. And for all the controversy, we now have 20 million people who have health insurance who didn't have it. It's actually proven to be more effective, cheaper than even advocates like me expected.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
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I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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There is no room on the federal bench for a judge who does not treat all people as equal before the law.
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I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.
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My best friend is my husband.
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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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I think you can find some rationales for that if we look at the background out of which he came. Martin [Luther King] had come out of a highly competitive, black, middle-class background.
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“Never try directly to diminish or minimize something which is important to another person. By making a direct challenge to a crucial criterion you are more likely to strengthen it than to diminish it. Your best strategy is to begin by accepting that the criterion is legitimately important.
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My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations.
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I wholeheartedly believe that travel leads to open minds and contributes to a better cultural understanding and acceptance of people from around the world.
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Of course, plenty of people don't think that guaranteeing affordable health insurance is a core responsibility of government.
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You look at something like health care, the Affordable Care Act. And for all the controversy, we now have 20 million people who have health insurance who didn't have it. It's actually proven to be more effective, cheaper than even advocates like me expected.
