Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
MICHELLE OBAMAYou can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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I like the idea of being rigorous about friendship.
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Look how I’m managing, I wanted to say in those moments, to my audience of no one. Does everyone see that I’m pulling this off?
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Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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Even white people were recognizing him now.
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Kids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.
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The punches hurt, even if I understood that they had little to do with who I really was as a person.
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No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
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We live by the paradigms we know.
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You’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.
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I wanted Americans to understand that words matter—that the hateful language they heard coming from their TVs did not reflect the true spirit of our country and that we could vote against it.
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Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts, good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt. They’re not painful. That’s not just with somebody you want to marry, but it’s with the friends that you choose. It’s with the people you surround yourselves with.
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The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
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In my blinding drive to excel, in my need to do things perfectly, I’d missed the signs and taken the wrong road.
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We explain when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you do not stoop to their level. Our motto is when they go low, you go high.
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