Barack Obama Quotes
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You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.
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I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.
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I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.
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If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.
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Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.
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The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.
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There are people for whom Rangers Football Club is their entire way of life.
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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.
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If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.
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I was always into pop music, Destiny's Child, songs with catchy music. Even when I was writing when I was younger, it wasn't all about expressing myself; it was just about making fun music.
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TV is the best. I wish that's how life was.
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My brother liked sewing and sculpting and making things, and my sister sewed and painted and cooked and baked. She's a professional baker now and makes the most gorgeous sculpture-like cakes. She's the queen of wedding cakes in the Lake Tahoe area.
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The secret to happiness, of course, is not getting what you want; it’s wanting what you get.
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Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality.
