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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Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.
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I would have worked no matter what. I was born and raised that way. It occurred to me to be married second.
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I would hate to see the idea of freedom disappear, and I wonder if maybe it will.
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The White House admitted that Vice President Biden's endorsement of gay marriage forced him to come out in favor of it. So in a related story millions of Americans are trying to get Biden hooked on pot.
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Democracy has no place for the kind of justice implied in an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Democracy is a system for the resolution of conflict, not for vengeance. Simple black-white notions of right and wrong do not fit into democratic politics. Political controversies result from the fact that the issues are complex, and men may properly have differences of opinion about them. The most terrible of all over-simplifications is the notion that politics is a contest between good people and bad people. Democracy is based on a profound insight into human nature, the realization that all men are sinful, all are imperfect, all are prejudiced, and none knows the whole truth. That is why we need liberty and why we have an obligation to hear all men. Liberty gives us a chance to learn from other people, to become aware of our own limitations, and to correct our bias. Even when we disagree with other people we like to think that they speak from good motives, and while we realize that all men are limited, we do not let ourselves imagine that any man is bad. Democracy is a political system for people who are not sure that they are right.
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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."
