Barack Obama Quotes
I think I was able to talk to people about values in ways that people - in ways that resonated with folks.
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability.
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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
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You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
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We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.
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It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don't want that for my children. When they're older, if people say to them, 'Did you have a chef?' I want them to be shocked by the question.
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Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
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I don't think I've ever listened to 'Sgt. Pepper's' the whole way through.
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When you find the right people, you never let go. The people who count are the ones who are your friends in lean times. You have all the friends you want when things are going well.
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I don't claim to know what it means to say that we are made in the image of God, but I profoundly and instinctively believe it and all that it implies.
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I actually play piano and violin, but I don't have a passion for it. It didn't make me wake up in the morning wanting to do it, or go to bed thinking about it.
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I think I was able to talk to people about values in ways that people - in ways that resonated with folks.
