Barack Obama Quotes
I am absolutely convinced that race relations on the whole are actually better now than they were 20 years [ago].
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You know Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.
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Humans don't 'need' math-based cryptocurrencies when dealing with other humans. We walk slowly, talk slowly, and buy big things. Credit cards, cash, wires, checks - the world seems fine.
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Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
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Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
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I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either.
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As chief elections officer, it's my job to protect the integrity of the ballot.
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Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.
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When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.
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My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod.
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Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.
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There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked.
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Health food makes me sick.
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A lot of people consider 9/11 to be a tragedy, and in some ways it is, but I think there's also opportunity for a lot of humor there.
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I've changed a great deal. I used to be vicious to my parents, just because they objected to me going full-time with a group. Now I can see that all they wanted was the best for me. And we get on great.
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Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.
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No person is perfect. I haven't, thank God, had any infidelity issues. But you can't say what you won't ever do. And you can't say that you won't have forgiveness in your heart if there were to be an issue like that.
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There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
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I am absolutely convinced that race relations on the whole are actually better now than they were 20 years [ago].
