Barack Obama Quotes
We belong on the cutting edge of innovation. That's an idea as old as America itself. We're a nation of tinkerers, and dreamers, and believers in a better tomorrow.
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.
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When I wake up on a Sunday morning with a slight hangover, in the gym with no makeup on, that's who Natalie Dormer really is. The girl next door who gets a spot on her forehead occasionally.
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People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.
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I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
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I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.
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I have confidence in mining. I see exciting opportunities in it.
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The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
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An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
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We have heard time and time again in the course of our work how talking can help heal the hidden challenges we can't deal with alone.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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You get good at being by yourself and you're condemned to a life sentence of solitude. You think, "Wait a minute! I should have been a tap dancer or something". But in my life, I feel like I take my stories to people orally.
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I always used to watch 'Labyrinth' and 'The Neverending Story.' Those were like my two favorite movies that I would watch over and over and over again.
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I didn't hit puberty until I was, like, 17, so I love to talk about that.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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Shale is one answer to the U.K.'s energy problem, and it has obviously worked extraordinarily well in America.
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We belong on the cutting edge of innovation. That's an idea as old as America itself. We're a nation of tinkerers, and dreamers, and believers in a better tomorrow.
