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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result

Michelle Obama

I’ve smiled for photos with people who call my husband horrible names on national television, but still want a framed keepsake for their mantel.
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Husband Myself Photograph Smile
It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
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Hard Time Pain Success
I just wanted to achieve. Or maybe I didn’t want to be dismissed as incapable of achievement.
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Achievement Myself Success Worth
When you’re First Lady, America shows itself to you in its extremes.
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Limitation Yourself
Changing the big picture takes time.. and the best things to do is focus on the things that we can make in our lives if we’re doing all that. That becomes the collage of real change
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Change Focus Live Photograph Reality
What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.
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End Grow Up Yourself
The lesson being that in life you control what you can.
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Control Lesson Life Yourself
The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.
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Black Man Oppression Reality
As a kid, you learn to measure long before you understand the size or value of anything. Eventually, if you’re lucky, you learn that you’ve been measuring all wrong.
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Children Learning Understand Value Wrong
I’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close.
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Hard Learning Myself
It was possible, I knew, to live on two planes at once—to have one’s feet planted in reality but pointed in the direction of progress.
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Direction Live Plant Possible Success
Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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Failure Feeling Inspirational Result
This may be the fundamental problem with caring a lot about what others think: It can put you on the established path—the my-isn’t-that-impressive path—and keep you there for a long time.
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Care Establishment Fundamental Path People Problem Thinking
I like the idea of being rigorous about friendship.
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Friendship Idea Myself
If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.
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Character Quick Yourself
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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Act Explanation Inspirational

Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result

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