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Barack Obama Quotes

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Hope Politics End Election Cynicism

I have a terrible superstition of writing things down.

Writing Down Things Terrible

When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper.

Me Want Ask Fresh Ground Pepper

I used to wear the German shirt with such pride and excitement, but now I don't. I feel unwanted and think that what I have achieved since my international debut in 2009 has been forgotten.

Think Pride Feel Now Unwanted Shirt

For me, the facts in anything are always secondary. You don't lie convincingly with the truth. You lie convincingly with being a good liar.

Stephen Graham Jones

Good Truth Lie Liar Me Facts

There's a lot of automation that can happen that isn't a replacement of humans but of mind-numbing behavior.

Stewart Butterfield

Behavior Automation Happen Humans

A lot of people come up to me expecting to meet the person they have seen perform. It's not going to happen, unless my mania, my stage person, responds to them and not the real me.

People Me Person Meet Real Stage

My style is to have a big vision, a big commitment.

Vision Style Commitment Big

I think it's a stereotype that soldiers don't talk, because my experience is that they will talk if they are met with empathy and no judgment.

Experience Empathy Think Will Talk

The time and preparation before a play is something I really value, and it's something I learned in New York.

Christopher Lloyd

Time Value New York Preparation Play

I love soccer; I want to be on the field.

Brandi Chastain

Love Soccer Want Field I Love

I think the blues is the best literature that we as blacks have created since we've been here. I call it our 'sacred book.' What I've attempted to do is to mine that field, to mine those cultural ideas and attitudes and give them to my characters.

Best Ideas Book Think Literature

When I'm actually making a film and trying to find solutions, I like to watch making-of documentaries about huge films, like 'Gladiator.' That couldn't be more apart from what I'm doing, but you see Ridley Scott facing huge problems and fixing them.

Philippe Falardeau

Problems Doing Trying You Find See

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