Barack Obama Quotes
And so this visit, this hallowed ground, reminds us that we must never, ever take our progress for granted. We must commit perennially to peace, which binds us across oceans.
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After the bones mended, my left eye was smaller than my right, and my eyebrow never grew back. But you know what? Big deal. I think I became beautiful after the accident. I became kinder, more aware. I gained respect for other people.
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It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.
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Imagination rules the world.
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Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to.
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Love is the one wild card.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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I'm proud to be among a bipartisan group of state attorneys general who consistently advocate against government infringement of Americans' Second Amendment rights.
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I don't want to lose what I've won.
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I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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Normally I sleep in until 7, and most days, I go right into the office. On Tuesdays, though, I stay home and do work. I need a day when I'm not in meeting after meeting. You need time to try to get into your head again and see what's next.
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My big idea is that democracy can only work properly if you have truly representative people at the table.
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From 1991 to 2000, I was totally nomadic. I was travelling 300 days a year and building out my research. These were a bit like my learning and migrating years, so to say.
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Sometimes I realize halfway through a story, I'm like, 'Why would anyone care about this? It's uninteresting.'
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Darkness cannot be overcome with more darkness, only with light. Violence cannot be overcome with more violence, only with peace.
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And so this visit, this hallowed ground, reminds us that we must never, ever take our progress for granted. We must commit perennially to peace, which binds us across oceans.
