Barack Obama Quotes
We can be civil to each other, and we can try to express ourselves acknowledging that we're all patriots, we're all Americans, and not assume the absolute worst in people's motives.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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I love to smell like roses, literally all day!
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.
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Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
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My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?
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Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.
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Some of my favorite media is the still cartoon that you can sit and study. You can get amazing metaphors across really quickly. I'm in awe of a Charles Schulz.
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He that dies this year is quit for the next.
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Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.
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People run away from the name subsidy. It is a subsidy. I am not afraid to call it so. It is paid for the purpose of giving a merchant marine to the whole country so that the trade of the whole country will be benefitted thereby, and the men running the ships will of course make a reasonable profit.... Unless we have a merchant marine, our navy if called upon for offensive or defensive work is going to be most defective.
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We can be civil to each other, and we can try to express ourselves acknowledging that we're all patriots, we're all Americans, and not assume the absolute worst in people's motives.
