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Dreams From My Father reveals more about Obama than is usually kno

Dreams From My Father reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after theyre dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it shows his mind working, in real time, sentence by sentence, in what feels like a private audience with the reader. – Jonathan Raban

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The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison with Obamas Dreams From My Father is Jimmy Carters short campaign autobiography, Why Not the Best?, published in 1975. – Jonathan Raban

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Dreams
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Critics? Dont talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I dont. – Jonathan Raban

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Failure
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Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted. – Jonathan Raban

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To this day, some of my closest friends say, Gaga, you know, everythings great. Youre a singer your dreams have come true. But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as youre growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if theyre true. – Lady Gaga

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Dreams

Man is firmly convinced that he is awake in reality he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself. – Gustave Meyrink

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Id say its been my biggest problem all my life… its money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true. – Walt Disney

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Dreams

I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you. – Roy Orbison

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Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people. – Will Cuppy

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The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we cant solve the equations, directly in the abstract. – Stephen Hawking

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May you get what you wish for. – Old Chinese curse

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The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief. – George Eliot

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