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.
Quotes to Explore
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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 did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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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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One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
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If a guy can't handle your natural hair, he's weak. Why waste time on someone like that?
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The best leaders over the long term are those who have a sound home life.
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When I was 17, I entered a modeling contest in my home province in China because my mother wanted me to learn better posture. And the rest is history!
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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.
