Barack Obama Quotes
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.
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I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.
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Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10 27 atoms.
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Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that's the least objectionable to them. They're not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they'll go to bed unhappy.
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It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.
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I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.
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My high school didn't have a football team; we just had like a surf team, because I grew up in Encinitas, California, which is the ultimate place where everyone skated or surfed, so it was a very different culture. It was, like, cool to be the art kid.
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I get mail from people all over the world now from people who tell me that they didn't really understand Down syndrome, but because of me they have read about it and studied it and now they know a lot more about it.
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I feel that an understanding could be reached with Germany which would result in a lasting peace with Europe and believe that a German victory is preferable to a British and Soviet victory.
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People still recognize me all the time on the street. The first thing they say when they stop me is, 'Where have you been?' The second comment they make is always, 'Oh, you've grown up.'
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The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane.
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Citizenship demands a sense of common purpose; participation in the hard work of self-government; an obligation to serve to our communities.
