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Barack Obama Quotes

America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: president
Nationality: american
Birth: August 4, 1961

Topics

Life Leader Business Mom Better

My first-ever job was when I was 14 or 15 in Washington, D.C., a job that I got through Marion Barry's summer-youth-employment program. It was working in the locker room of a public swimming pool, deep inside Anacostia in Southeast D.C., about five to 10 minutes from my house.

Job Swimming Deep House Pool Inside

I've been called 'paranoid,' 'schizophrenic,' 'the wild child of Silicon Valley.'

Child Wild Paranoid Valley Been

To one who loves his country in all its parts, it is natural to rejoice in whatever contributes to the prosperity and honor and marks the stability and progress of any portion of its people.

Jefferson Davis

Progress People Honor Country Who

It's hard being away from home. But other than that, performing is the highlight of my day.

Martina McBride

Home Day Hard Away Being Performing

You have got to field well. If you don't bat well, you can still make a difference by fielding well. There are times I have played games just because of my fielding.

Mohammad Azharuddin

Make A Difference You Just Because

When I left school, I got a job in a shoe shop and I used to save 15 quid a week and pay for my own singing and acting lessons.

Job School Singing Week Acting Shoe

I'm from New Orleans, which is all about direct engagement out in the street with all the parades and Mardi Gras Indians and jazz funerals. I'm trying to take that and put it into my generation, a group that doesn't have enough joy and celebration in their lives.

Joy Generation Enough Trying Jazz

I have had quite a few obsessive fans. They write to me and then they turn up at signings and look really sheepish. If I said 'boo' to them, they would run away. I think they maybe believe I could take over their lives and sort them out. If they saw the state of my kitchen they wouldn't think that.

Me Kitchen Believe Think Look Run

I have two basic votes before I vote: is it constitutional, and is it in the interests of my people. If the answer is yes to both of them, then I vote for it, and I don't care who authored it.

People Care Vote Two Yes Answer

Nobody wants to make a bad 'Flight of the Navigator' remake. There's just no interest. We're going to do it if it's good.

Colin Trevorrow

Good Bad Nobody Flight Going Just

The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true.

Phillip E. Johnson

Knowledge Science Find True Why

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Richard P. Feynman

Nature Technology Reality Over Take

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