Barack Obama Quotes

If you look at how I've tried to and how I'll continue to try to govern, I'm not driven by some ideological agenda. I'm a pretty practical guy and I just want to make sure that things work.

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You think about taking audiences on a journey.
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Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.
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I feel the happiest when I'm at the golf course. And I feel calm when I'm on the golf course. I think I'm just a much better person when I'm on the golf course.
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Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
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Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
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I exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It's all about keeping core strength. I do a lot of stretching too.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.
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Men think a woman should not have an opinion.
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The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.
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My mum's from Yorkshire and my parents aren't snotty or posh - they're very hard workers, both of them.
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It's important to hold something back, though, because quite frankly my personal life is pretty dull and I don't want to bore people with it.
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If you look at other countries, you'll find lots of girls doing physics, engineering, and science. It's something to do with the kind of culture we have in the English-speaking world about what's appropriate for each of the two sexes.
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There is a line that I always loved from Lucretius. He said, "The sublime is the art of exchanging easier for more difficult pleasures." The presumption of that formulation is that the more difficult pleasures are actually better than the easier pleasures. That is why one makes the exchange.
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I can open up any can of worms and get people upset.
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If you look at how I've tried to and how I'll continue to try to govern, I'm not driven by some ideological agenda. I'm a pretty practical guy and I just want to make sure that things work.