Barack Obama Quotes
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No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.
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Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'
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The products in my bathroom are pretty minimal. Issey Miyake makes great cologne, and I use everything from Zirh, especially their shave scream. I really like Mario Badesco aftershave, too. It's amazing.
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I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.
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The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.
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My style is all I have. When I go on stage, that's me in my comfort zone. It's not a costume. It's just me. And I want every woman to feel that way.
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.
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Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
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In TV, you're always confused because you legitimately don't know what you're doing the next week.
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I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment, and how easy it is to fix some of those things.
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I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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The material particle nature of primary cosmic radiation has been confirmed, although the processes turned out to be extraordinarily more complicated than we had assumed.
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Famously, Anne Boleyn was not a beauty: she was more about quirkiness and an innate sensuality, and there are a lot of references to her eyes. Which sends out a great message for women, because life is not about the aesthetic all the time.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
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When you make a promise, keep it.
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What do you think a stimulus is? It's spending - that's the whole point! Seriously.
