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Obama Quotes

Created on Sat, 14 Jun 2025 21:27:57 GMT

"In order to avoid dissapointing my mother, I read the Bible, beginning to end, when I was only 12. Despite my attentive reading, at no point the I was able to be affected by anything on the Gospel beyond some common sense advise, which I had already learned in school. I was terribly ashamed over it, and tried to hide this from myself.", "Before Michele and I made love, I liked to take a full half an hour to drink a warm glass of milk with cocoa and cinnamon, even during hot summers, burn some incense, and talk a little bit before the act. Being calm during sex made the experience much more satisfying for both sides.", "I asked myself if I was a homosexual, but I never found any man 'beautiful'.", "During my college flings, I always had to poke a little bit of marihuana before 'the act', or I would find it impossible to become truly absent-minded.", "After the abolishment of the death penalty in most states, I had the epiphany that, if Jesus Christ was born today in America, he simply couldn't have been executed. That alone made me approach religion with a renewed optimism.", "I never once heard the sentence: 'I hate you', directed against me.", "I used to read two books a week, in all variety of topics. I followed poetry with philosophy with theology with science. While I grew into what one could call an 'intellectual', but this label, far from making me feel comfortable or proud, filled me instead with an unbearable shame. And so, I stopped reading.", "When I was a kid, I felt down a boat. I didn't know how to swim, however, as if in a miracle, I just floated above the water, until one of the adults came to rescue me. I never went into the water ever again, nor I ever learned how to swim properly.", "I was afraid that, the moment one of my daughters finally had a son, my wife Michele would stop loving me. I was consumed by a furious jealousy towards my own future grandson, to the point a part of me secretly hoped for a miscarriage.", "I arrived to my identity through constant questioning: 'what is life?', 'what is good?, 'what is black?',... And I persisted on my inquiring, until I arrived to a satisfactory answer.", "My priest told me before the campaign: 'Barry, your life is a revolving door, you need to keep walking around in circles, don't bother to think about, just walk until you just go through the exit without even realising'. Was he talking about Heaven? But at the time, I thought he was talking about politics.", "I imagine myself floating over an America three thousand years from now, like a ghost from the past. I visit one of the many neglected and ruined missile silos scattered across the nation, still with active nuclear bombs in them, never used, now poisoning the land with their radiation.", "When I was a teenager, I was paralyzed with the fear that, when my mother died one day, I wouldn't be capable of crying as much as I should during her funeral. I feared the rest of the assistants finding my pain an imposture. I secretly wished I could die before her for that reason alone.", "I told Michele that I was one of the nominees for that year's Nobel Peace Prize, but that I was still surprised by the tribunal's unanimous decission. 'Obama, if there's someone in this fucking world who deserves that Prize', said Michele, 'that is you, motherfucker!'. I confess I felt lecherous, as a housewive discovering how to masturbate.", "During my innaguration as US president, I couldn't stop but thinking: 'This is it'. From now on, history would be merely a continuous succession of smiling people like me, without any logical reason to ever break from this chain. This was, I suspected, what they call 'the end of history' - the election, I suddenly realized, had been my battle of Jena - and, by arbitrary circumstance, I happened to be in Napoleon's boots.", "I met with my friend Bill Gates at the end of one of David Christian's Ted Talks. In the after party, we bantered a little bit about artificial intelligences. After sharing a hearty laught, Bill put his hand over my shoulders and told me: 'Barry, imagine if, and let's hope this never happen, Osama bin Laden launched a sarin attack in this very building with all these very important people like both of us, or Bezos, or Spielberg, or Merkel over there, and killed everyone in a flash. This would be a monstruous act, no doubt, but it wouldn't really change anything at all. A few day's for bureaucratic adjustment, and for the new people that just got a promotion to learn the ropes a bit, and that will be it. And that's the beauty of it!'. And we both laughted again, even louder. 'And that's the beauty of it!'." , "During my holiday in Rome, walking through the ruins of what had been once the forum, I kept thinking on what I saw on television the night prior - that the Roman Empire felt because of led poisoning coming from the pipes they installed. So simple. I mentioned this fact to one of the women from my group of tourists. 'Mister Obama', she said, 'you must be an engineer'. But no, back then, I was just a lawyer daydreaming with becoming a senator.", "The decission of making Joe Biden my VP could be controversial. I was frequently reminded that he was the last man standing in the democratic party to ever cheat on his wife 'and mean it'.", "I do not remember the shores of my native Hawaii, despite my time there as a child. When I finally returned to my native Honolulu, during an official visit in my second term, I went for the last time to the beach, and I wondered if these were the same waves I met during my earliest days.", "When in Rome, pope Benedict XVI brought me to the Catacombs of Callixtus, where several heads of the early church laid buried. The pope confessed me that despite those being the remains of past vicars of Christ, we could not know who they were, what were their lives, if they were virtuous or wicked ones, or if their faith faultered them during their lives. 'Yet, here, down below: they're all equal now'. I replied - My Holiness, excuse me, but that is nonsense.", "I made a lists of things I would like to try if I were young again: Skate, metrosexuality, and podcasts.", "Late August, 2009, I went in official visit to Athens, during the nadir of their economic crisis. I visited the ruins of the Acropolis where, when the press stopped paying attention to me and focused instead on Michele, the prime minister confessed me that Greece was done, by this point it was a failed nation, and a military coup or a civil war soon enough would put an end to the Republic. I reassured that the USA would never allow that to happen. He quoted something by Thucydides. That same day, my assistant told me Michael Jackson had died of overdose.", "Already in the campaign trail I was surrounded by people who wanted to be like me. Two months before becoming 44th president, they had already studied every little gesture and quirk of mine, and were capable of replicating them. That's how my campaign lorry became a nomadic hall of mirrors.", "I took comfort on the value of human life being unmeasurable - as I took comfort on most pain being invisible.", "It's hard to think my life, or any other human life, gives back in return something that compensates for its waste. Meanwhile, microalgae, while apparently insignificant, liberate the oxygen that sustains all life. Is it true what they say that the meek shall inherit the Earth?", "As a kid, a tick bit my leg. I must admit I only felt envy towards that annoying little bug. In my leg, she found every need and every pleasure her narrow mind was capable of conceiving more than fulfilled. I squashed her, she died in ecstasy. But for a man, paradise is but a promise.", "When I ran for president, I though my greatest asset was being perceived as the one candidate with the least chance of acting out of evil. Only after the second run, my advisors told me that I was mistaken.", "The day of Kennedy's funeral, I remember entering my mother's room and telling her - ma', one day, I'll too be president.", "It took me thirty years to find out it wasn't 'pity' what I felt towards others", "The hardest part about losing is pretending that you're personally hurt over your loss", "I didn't see any real advantages to sodomy. I make love to men daily, but in the imagination.", "After I grew older than 16, I stopped feeling envy altogether. Nobody had something I wished for, and nobody was above me."

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