Barack Obama Quotes
We will stand against violence and intimidation. We will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings.Barack Obama
Quotes to Explore
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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
Vera Wang -
A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
Karl Kraus -
Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
Larry Hagman -
I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.
Nate Silver -
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
Florence Nightingale
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I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
B. B. King -
I've been a speaker. I've been a majority leader. I've been a minority leader. Those are the sort of things I don't need any more.
Dan Webster -
We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to... until they really bite us in the butt.
Queen Latifah -
I'd been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn't really. You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies.
I. M. Pei -
Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
H. L. Mencken -
To be able to make decisions and see them come to fruition and feel the excitement around them, what it generates within the company, how the artists get motivated - that's the most rewarding part; feeling I can be a catalyst for an artistic experience for our artists and for the public.
Karen Kain
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Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It's the tiredest, most trite and worked-over subject in the world, and that was why it appealed to me, because I wanted to do something really new and different about something that had been worked over all these centuries, and I think I did.
Gary Jennings -
Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
Barbara Kingsolver -
If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
S. Jay Olshansky -
Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.
T. Boone Pickens -
'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
Adam Driver -
The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
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I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.
Larry Wall -
Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms.
Ralph Bakshi -
But most people don't come up to me and express a lot of emotion.
Jim Hodges -
The similarities between me and my father are different.
Dale Berra -
If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nailbiters.
Anita Bryant -
We will stand against violence and intimidation. We will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings.
Barack Obama