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Barack Obama Quotes

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

Barack Obama

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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World Defeated Real Enemies Must

Secondary school parents tell me that they are frustrated, that their teachers ignore them, their children don't give them much feedback because they are adolescents, they feel kind of out of the loop.

Jim Knight

Children School Parents Me Ignore

I started when I was in 'The King and I' when I was on Broadway when I was nine.

Jenna Ushkowitz

King Broadway Started Nine

I don't think I got thin. I think I got healthy.

Jennifer Aniston

Think Healthy Got I Think Thin

I began my career in Los Angeles and started working fairly quickly.

John Larroquette

Career Los Angeles Started Working

My parents were very indiscrete.

Maurice Sendak

Parents Very Were

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.

Jeanette Winterson

Work Love World Book Body Her

On 'Mad Men,' I have a bit of an advantage because I know who gets better as they repeat a scene and who's best at the beginning.

John Slattery

Best Men Beginning Better Mad Know

I was at a pretty rough school, and the only thing I was good at was art.

Roger Rees

Good Art School Pretty Rough Only

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.

Mason Cooley

History Will Critic Last Word He

The initial notion for 'Check Your Head' was just all three of us getting back to playing instruments.

Mike D

Back Three Head Check Playing Us

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

Jean Cocteau

Truth Liar Poetry Always Poet Who

You can't take it on that you're responsible for somebody else's well-being, but you can be positive and bring them up.

Jonah Marais

Positive You Well-Being Responsible