Barack Obama Quotes

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

Barack Obama

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We've had Obama for eight years, who, to me, is a model of integrity, sensitivity, empathy. He's wise, he's patient, he maintains his composure, and I would have voted for him again.

Max Joseph

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I carry earplugs and use them even when it's quiet.

Max Apple

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I didn't know Michael Hastings very well, but one thing about him was always obvious - he was born to be in the news business, he loved it, he was made for it. He wrote about Iraq and Afghanistan as places he had always been destined to visit.

Matt Taibbi

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I'm convinced being a tennis analyst is the easiest job in the world.

Andy Roddick

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If Marxist theory dictates that the personal is always political, the rebuttal of both 'The Americans' and 'House of Cards' is that the political is always personal: the sum total of our collective needs and desires, vows and betrayals.

Steve Erickson

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Not surprisingly, troubled economic times often beget proselytizers of wacky, extreme ideas.

Steven Rattner

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I started playing violin when I was six, so I thought I could be a professional. It wasn't until I was 15 when I got into acting classes and realized this was what I wanted to do.

Torrey DeVitto

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Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.

Jonathan Raban

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I'm sure the president doesn't enjoy being called deporter-in-chief.

Jose Antonio Vargas

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All fame ever does for you is get attention for the work you really want to do.

Jonathan Frid

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It's rare that you get to have a lovely time of it and you're not just portraying endless trauma on film.

Diane Lane

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It's easy enough to foist your music collection on your kids. Lectures are not required; you just play the stuff while they are prisoner in the back seat on a long drive, or softly in the background while eating dinner.

Dean Wareham

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