there’s no straight line between effort and reward.
MICHELLE OBAMAWe live by the paradigms we know.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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Even if we didn’t know the context, we were instructed to remember that context existed. Everyone on earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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When you’re First Lady, America shows itself to you in its extremes.
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You’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.
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Here’s a memory, which like most memories is imperfect and subjective—collected long ago like a beach pebble and slipped into the pocket of my mind.
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If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.
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Everyone on Earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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When they go low, we go high.
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Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child – 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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Now that I’m an adult, I realize that kids know at a very young age when they’re being devalued, when adults aren’t invested enough to help them learn. Their anger over it can manifest itself as unruliness. It’s hardly their fault. They aren’t bad kids. They’re just trying to survive bad circumstances.
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My most important title is still mom-in-chief. My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.
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We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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America, our moment is now, Barack said. Our moment is now.
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