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"Michelle: So my question is why you, Barack? Why do YOU need to be president?”
Barack: “...I know that the day I...take the oath to be president of the United States, the world will start looking at America differently...kids all around the country - Black...Hispanic...kids who don’t fit in - they’ll see themselves differently...their horizons lifted, their possibilities expanded...that would be worth it.”" — Dec 08, 2020 07:37AM
"Michelle: So my question is why you, Barack? Why do YOU need to be president?”
Barack: “...I know that the day I...take the oath to be president of the United States, the world will start looking at America differently...kids all around the country - Black...Hispanic...kids who don’t fit in - they’ll see themselves differently...their horizons lifted, their possibilities expanded...that would be worth it.”" — Dec 08, 2020 07:37AM
IRIN: And when the time comes, what would you like to be remembered for? RBG: Someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability. And to help repair tears in her society, to make things a little
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“My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent”
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“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”
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“Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.”
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“At its core, the idea of purpose is the idea that what we do matters to people other than ourselves.”
― Grit
― Grit
“Being confused about choices is nothing more than hoping that maybe there is a way to get through life without taking charge.”
― The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter - And How to Make the Most of Them Now
― The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter - And How to Make the Most of Them Now
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