Barack Obama Quotes
I look at some of the kids that I interact with, and they were born with so many disadvantages. And you could start off in your first interaction with them saying, "Unless they get a lot of compensatory help, they're not going to be able to compete; they're just so far behind, and they're wounded and they're hurt."
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
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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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Competition is like a treadmill. If you stand still, you get swept off. But when you run, you can never really get ahead of the treadmill and cover new terrain - so you never run faster than the speed that is set.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
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I try to do things I love or care about for some reason.
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Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.
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Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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For eight years, it did not matter how balanced President Obama was. It did not matter how educated he was or how intelligent he was. Nothing was ever good enough for his opponents. It was clear that he could not win. It was clear that, no matter what he did, in their eyes, he could not win.
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War today is such a more visible thing. We see it on television, on CNN. In 1914, war was a concept.
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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If we can inspire a kid to pick up a guitar - and less and less kids are doing so these days - it'd be really cool because I know how it felt growing up and how special that was for me.
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Games like Simon Says lead to lots of sniggering and giggling—signs of safety and relaxation. When teenagers balk at these “stupid games,” we nod understandingly and enlist their cooperation by asking them to demonstrate games to the little kids, who “need their help.
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I look at some of the kids that I interact with, and they were born with so many disadvantages. And you could start off in your first interaction with them saying, "Unless they get a lot of compensatory help, they're not going to be able to compete; they're just so far behind, and they're wounded and they're hurt."
