Michelle Obama Quotes - Page 4

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• Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you don't matter, or like you don't have a place in our American story - because you do.

  Michelle Obama

  Stories, Matter, Like You

  Farewell Speech as First Lady to participants in the Reach Higher Initiative, in: "Read Every Word of Michelle Obama's Final Speech as FLOTUS" by Alyssa Bailey, www.elle.com. January 6, 2017.

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• Success is only meaningful - and enjoyable - if it feels like your own.

  Michelle Obama

  Success, Meaningful, Feels

  Michelle Obama's Commencement Address at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 17, 2012.

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• We all grew up in communities with grandmothers who cooked two, three vegetables that you had to eat. There was no ifs, ands or buts about it. But that's because many of our grandparents, they had community gardens; there was the vegetable man that came around. There were many other resources that allowed them to have access. So it's not that people don't know or don't want to do the right thing; they just have to have access to the foods that they know will make their families healthier.

  Michelle Obama

  Children, Grandmother, Men

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• We learned about dignity and decency - that how hard you work matters more than how much you make... that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

  Michelle Obama

  Mean, Helping Others, Matter

  Democratic National Convention speech, 2012.

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• Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don't hurt.

  Michelle Obama

  Strong Women, Hurt, Good Relationship

  Remarks by the First Lady at an Event with Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Students, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 25, 2011.

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• We need all hands on deck, and that means clearing hurdles for women and girls as they navigate careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.

  Michelle Obama

  Girl, Mean, Math

  "Michelle Obama Lends a Hand For Women In Science" by Helene McLaughlin, www.wired.com. September 28, 2011.

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• I love that for Barack, there is no such thing as 'us' and 'them' - he doesn't care whether you're a Democrat, a Republican, or none of the above... he knows that we all love our country... and he's always ready to listen to good ideas... he's always looking for the very best in everyone he meets.

  Michelle Obama

  Country, Ideas, Care

  Convention Speech, www.npr.org. September 4, 2012.

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• You can be a good mom and still work out, get your rest, have a career - or not. My mother encouraged me to find that balance.

  Michelle Obama

  Mom, Mother, Careers

  "Michelle Obama’s tips for being happy, healthy". Interview with Liz Vaccariello, www.today.com. October 5, 2009.

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• You see, even though back then Barack was a Senator and a presidential candidate... to me, he was still the guy who'd picked me up for our dates in a car that was so rusted out, I could actually see the pavement going by through a hole in the passenger side door... he was the guy whose proudest possession was a coffee table he'd found in a dumpster, and whose only pair of decent shoes was half a size too small.

  Michelle Obama

  Coffee, Shoes, Doors

  Michelle Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., www.npr.org. September 4, 2012.

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• My happiness is tied to how I feel about myself.

  Michelle Obama

  Feels, Tied

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• I am so tired of fear. And I don't want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.

  Michelle Obama

  Girl, Country, Tired

  "To Live Beyond Our Fear". Speech introducing her husband at a campaign rally in Des Moines, Iowa, August 16, 2007.

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• I always encourage people to start in their own personal universe, because sometimes we as parents start thinking about the big picture. How do I change what's happening in my entire school? And how do I do it in my community? And then you get overwhelmed and it's just like, "Forget it, I'll just stay here in my kitchen and wait." But, start small.

  Michelle Obama

  School, Thinking, People

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• Hope and change are hard-fought things.

  Michelle Obama

  Commitment, Challenges, Hope And Change

  "Michelle Obama: What you see is the real me" by Mike Celizic, www.today.com. February 3, 2010.

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• I tell this to my girls all the time: This journey we're on is a once - in - a - lifetime opportunity.

  Michelle Obama

  Girl, Opportunity, Journey

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• Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place.

  Michelle Obama

  Moving, Sacrifice, Different

  "Glenn Beck: America using a climate change weapon?". www.glennbeck.com.

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• Don't worry about what candidates have done or said, just vote for the Democrats. Then, afterwards, you can go eat fried chicken.

  Michelle Obama

  Worry, Done, Vote

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• I am desperate for change - now - not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.

  Michelle Obama

  Years, Desperate, Right Now

  "First Lady in Waiting". Interview with Leslie Bennetts, www.vanityfair.com. December 27, 2007.

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• I come here today as a Christian, a person of faith who believes we've all been called to serve our fellow men and women and to honor God's creation. We want our girls to know right from wrong, to always tell the truth, to treat people no matter who they are with dignity and respect, no matter how different they may seem...because we want our girls to know we are all God's children and there's so much more that unites than divides us.

  Michelle Obama

  Girl, Christian, Children

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• For me exercise is more than just physical, it’s therapeutic.

  Michelle Obama

  Motivational, Exercise, New Years Resolution

  Michelle Obama, Lisa Rogak (2009). “Michelle Obama: In Her Own Words”, p.55, PublicAffairs

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• Barack is one of the smartest people you will ever encounter who will deign to enter this messy thing called politics.

  Michelle Obama

  People, Encounters, Messy

  "Deign or Reign?" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. January 2, 2008.

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• I try to have no absolute nos. I love french fries, I like a good burger, and I like pie. And that's okay.

  Michelle Obama

  Pie, French Love, Trying

  "Michelle Obama's Rules for Staying Healthy and Happy". Interview with Liz Vaccariello, www.prevention.com. November 3, 2011.

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• Every day, through engagement in the arts, our children learn to open their imagination, to dream just a little bigger and to strive every day to reach those dreams.

  Michelle Obama

  Dream, Art, Children

  "Michelle Obama's best pop culture moments: From mom dancing to Muppets" by Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, www.today.com. January 15, 2014.

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• You work hard for what you want in life.

  Michelle Obama

  Hard Work, Want, What You Want

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Talking is good. Conversations have to be forever.

  Michelle Obama

  Talking, Forever, Conversation

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.

  Michelle Obama

  Daughter, Mother, Integrity

  Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 25 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

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