Barack Obama Quotes
I became a lightning rod for some partisan battles. I could not be prouder of the track record we've put together. By almost every measure, the country is significantly better off than when I came in.
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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I grew up on films.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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President Obama was never going repeal Obamacare - he was not going to be brought to his knees with the threat of a government shutdown.
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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Every year, like a good Catholic, I wait for Christmas. Putting up the lights, decorating the tree, making sweets and then unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning... it's a tradition my family has followed since I was very little.
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When it comes to the periodic table, the United States really blew its chance to make a name for itself. If you look over a map of all the elements named for cities, states, countries, and continents, it's not surprising that European locales dominate the map.
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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
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I studied fashion at the London College of Fashion. I get involved in it as part of my own styling, so if I wasn't a pop star maybe a fashion buyer or a stylist.
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Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
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The cause doesn't have to be righteous and battle doesn't have to be winnable; but over and over again throughout history, men have chosen to die in battle with their friends rather than to flee on their own and survive.
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For the serious mediocre writer convention makes him sound like a lot of other people; for the popular writer it gives him a formula he can exploit; for the serious good writer it releases his experiences or emotions from himself and incorporates them into literature, where they belong.
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I definitely am more observational of the people around me and how they interact and less introspective about myself.
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It means a lot when people understand what I'm going for.
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Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
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I became a lightning rod for some partisan battles. I could not be prouder of the track record we've put together. By almost every measure, the country is significantly better off than when I came in.
