Barack Obama Quotes
When I was in Washington, I would usually get home from the Capitol at about 7:30 or 8, and I would try to write as much as possible. It was almost all in the wee hours.
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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I would like to see America some day.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.
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Zoroastrians believe in one Great Almighty Spirit of Good who is in combat against evil forces, and Goodness prevails in the end. There is no self-flagellation or staring at the sun or snake-handling.
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Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.
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Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.
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So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.
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I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?'
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The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.
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Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.'
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
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The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don't know where your next meal is coming from, it's hard to consider the environment 100 years down the line.
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As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender.
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So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.
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I grew up in a haunted castle, boys. If you've never had a ghost try to push you down the stairs, you've never lived.
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When I was in Washington, I would usually get home from the Capitol at about 7:30 or 8, and I would try to write as much as possible. It was almost all in the wee hours.
