Quote by Barack Obama
We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spe

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent. – Barack Obama

Other quotes by Barack Obama

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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Education
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I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying. – Barack Obama

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Marriage
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I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things – such as traditional marriage – that, I think, express a communitys concern and regard for a particular institution. – Barack Obama

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Marriage
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Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it. – Ernest Hemingway

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Time

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is. – Bertrand Russell

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Time

Any time you got nothing to do – and lots of time to do it – come on up. – Mae West

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Time

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born. – Charlie Chaplin

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Time

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Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. – Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky

Category:
Death

Imagine a judicial nominee said my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman. Wouldnt they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism. – Newt Gingrich

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Experience

Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, lets make it amateur again. – Carl Lewis

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Sports

No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work. – William Ralph Inge

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Miscellaneous