Barack Obama Quotes
We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.
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Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct.
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I know that when I get stressed, I want to eat junk food. So now I just know - 'I'm stressed, I want to eat junk food, so I'm going to go work out instead, or eat something healthy.' It really works.
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What's interesting is to be sexy but not know it. You'll be in a restaurant, and some girls will walk in and you can tell that they really want to be sexy. It's written on their faces because that's all they want to show. There's a fear that one might not look further.
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My joke is that three black people watch 'The Daily Show' at any given time. So if I'm watching it, that counts, and there's only two left. It's a silly joke, but you know, different types of comedy reach different cultures.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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Even though I've danced with actors, it wasn't the same with NTR.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.
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I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.
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I'm committed to sign in everything I communicate, but I also speak. I still believe that I reach more people when I do that. I bridge two different cultures and two different worlds, and I think that bridge still needs work.
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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
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Everybody has their struggles.
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I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.
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The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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My eldest sister Beth is a doctor who studied at Harvard and Columbia and played basketball for Harvard. She set the athletic and academic standard for the rest of us to follow.
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If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.
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What we are doing, with the United Nations ' full support, is helping that full majority of Iraqis build what we have here -- a democratic, stable, prosperous and peaceful society.
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In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry.
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Those who will find here a hold for their souls, an anvil for their hands, and vitality for their hearts, will build both their lives and the land.
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I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.
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We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.
