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Barack Obama Quotes

If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Good Reading Decisions Right Critics

To be clear, I worry as much about the impact of the Internet as anyone else. I worry about shortening attention spans, the physical cost of sedentary 'surfing' and the potential for coarsening discourse as millions of web pages compete for attention by appealing to our base instincts.

Potential Impact Internet Worry Cost

When I left Washington, we actually had a balanced budget and we paid down the most amount of the national debt in modern history and cut taxes and created jobs. And I was the chief architect of that plan in '97.

History Budget Plan Down Washington

I love listening to Coach Belichick's press conferences: even though they may not be what the media wants, they're great coaching, teaching tools.

Love Great Listening Tools Media

Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.

Poetry Writing Plan Living Write

Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novel's length, satisfies the reader.

Love Poetry Short Create Possible

Remember to always be yourself.

Yourself Be Yourself Remember Always

When I was really little, it was very clear to me that I felt like a boy, and my friends were all boys.

Me Friends Boy Little Clear Like

My mom was the breadwinner in my family. I always thought, 'That's how it is.' I never thought that was the exception.

Learning Relationship School College

There's so much music from Led Zeppelin that I think I overlooked when I was a kid because I didn't understand it, so now to revisit it at an older age, I have a deeper appreciation for it.

Music Age Appreciation Think Now

I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel's suitcase.

Manager Him Out Get Off Grand

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Wisdom Knowledge Light You Source

When someone sees in you what you've been feeling all along, that's an awesome thing.

Anthony Hemingway

Someone You Feeling Awesome Been

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