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We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

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Why can't I just eat my waffle?

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The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

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If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

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Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

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He was 1 of 3 black kids in class during elementary school.

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He used to love playing baseball as a kid.

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He used to love playing in the ocean and at the beach as a kid

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He went to Harvard Law school to get info on how to became a lawyer but instead he became the president.

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Before starting his political career he published a book called Dreams from my father.

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he went to  Occidental College, Columbia University, and Harvard Law School.

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He went to Catholic and Muslim schools from age 6-10. So he was raised as an Indonesian child.

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When he was 2 his dad left then went back to Kenye where he died 19 years later in an auto-mobile accident.

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With 70% of the votes he was voted senate in the U.S. in 2005.

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IN 2002 he spoke against war and was well known in the Democratic Party.

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In 1996 he was named Illinois Senate.

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He was given to Code name "Renegade" by the Secret Service handlers.

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He promised Michelle he would quit smoking but he didn't

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During his campaign he refused to watch CNN and watched the sports channels instead.

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He went to Harvard Law school and that's where he met Michelle.

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Some people say that he is the worst president they have ever had.

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He used to play basketball and his nickname was Barry O'Bomber.

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His dad left him at age 2 and his mom remarried and they moved to Indonesia. There the ate snakes and dogs.

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He started liking politics at a young age

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In school he was called "Curly Eyelashes" because his lashes were long and curly.

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Some of Obama's ansestors were slave owners.

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he has a lot of family due to his dad and his grandfathers two generations back having so many wives and kids.

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His high school year book is inscription thanks the "Choom Squad". Choom is Hawaiian slang for "pot smoking".

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He was once bullied in school for his initials, and his color.

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He used the name Barry instead of Barack.

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He was born August 4, 1961.

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As a teen he took drugs such as marijuana and cocaine.

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He doesn't drink coffee at all. Amazing i cant last a month without coffee.

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He used to have a pet ape named Tata.

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He has read every Harry Potter book

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He is one out of three presidents who won a rammy.

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He collects Spider-man comic books.

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His favorite game is Scrabble.

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He has told us many times that he hasn't liked ice cream since he worked at Baskin-Robins as a teenager

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He was born in Hawaii

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His first name ,Barack, means "blessed".