Quote by Barack Obama
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefull

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

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We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, were getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: Were making things again. – Barack Obama

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best
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Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because were hardwired not to always think clearly when were scared. And the countrys scared. – Barack Obama

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Politics
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Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like youre flying high at first, but it wont take long before you feel the impact. – Barack Obama

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If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. – George MacDonald

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I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music – should there be any left – would go mad with joy. – Alban Berg

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My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism. – John Woo

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends. – Samuel Pepys

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To understand is to perceive patterns. – Sir Isaiah Berlin

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The job cant be finished only improved to please the customer. – W. Edwards Deming

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There arent many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for money. But being famous, thats a 24 hour job right there. – Bill Murray

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I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work. – Henry Rollins

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