Barack Obama Quotes
Leadership isn't just legislation, that it's a matter of persuading people and giving them confidence, and bringing them together and setting a tone.
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We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.
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I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'
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After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.
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For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think about how far behind a child would be without access to these fundamental tools - tools that are vital to successful employment later in life - it's a travesty.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.
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I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!'
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There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.
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One of the things that put me off writing for a while was that piece of advice everybody gives new writers: 'Write what you know.' Nobody would ever want to read about my boring life! But I do know a lot of things about different societies' cultures and mythologies. The way people were and are.
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I learned the biggest lesson just watching Ed McMahon, watching him watch Mr. Carson's monologue.
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You have to enjoy yourself when you go to the movies. People don't want to spend their hard earned money to simply go see a history lesson.
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Leadership isn't just legislation, that it's a matter of persuading people and giving them confidence, and bringing them together and setting a tone.
