Barack Obama Quotes
When you've got little kids, and you're tucking them in. When you open a door and they're in their pajamas and they're, you know, wrestling with you and asking you, you know, to read to them and stuff, [The white House] starts feeling like home pretty quick. Not to mention having a mother-in-law upstairs, and the dog, and now two.
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You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
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I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
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I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.
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The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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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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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.
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One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
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If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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It's a sin to be tired.
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We just want to win. It doesn't matter how the stats look.
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I think the most attractive thing is a sense of humour. If someone can make you laugh, you've gotten a lot out of the way.
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Think only about what is holy. Empty your mind.
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When you put so much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory. Then you have to forget the forgetting, and that too is memorable.
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When you've got little kids, and you're tucking them in. When you open a door and they're in their pajamas and they're, you know, wrestling with you and asking you, you know, to read to them and stuff, [The white House] starts feeling like home pretty quick. Not to mention having a mother-in-law upstairs, and the dog, and now two.
