Barack Obama Quotes
We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.Barack Obama
Quotes to Explore
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
Vanilla Ice -
At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
Karen Bender -
I am who I am.
J. B. Pritzker -
Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When I was a kid, I used to have to take the garbage out at night on Wednesdays. I lived out in the country. I'd take the garbage out, and I used to pretend that I was the only person in the whole world, except for one other person, and he was looking for me.
Taylor Kinney -
Produce great men, the rest follows.
Walt Whitman -
Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
Samantha Power
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
Utada Hikaru -
Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
R. W. Apple, Jr. -
I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
Rachelle Lefevre -
I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.
Yvette Nicole Brown -
Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
Walt Whitman -
In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
P. J. O'Rourke
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
Jack Nicklaus -
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
J. B. Priestley -
Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
Karl Jaspers -
I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.
Yara Shahidi -
To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
La'Porsha Renae -
I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
Barbara Bush
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I find books that have a moral and spiritual center, that speak to what is really important and lasting, hugely appealing.
Jeannette Walls -
I'm not a person that socializes very well.
Paulo Coelho -
I've been fortunate enough to travel to Edinburgh a few times over the last few years, and I just loved the city. I find it one of the more beautiful cities in Europe.
Joe Russo -
Do not let yourself be bothered by the inconsequential. One has only so much time in this world, so devote it to the work and the people most important to you, to those you love and things that matter. One can waste half a lifetime with people one doesn't really like, or doing things when one would be better off somewhere else.
Louis L'Amour -
I don't have time for any special skin routines. Many a night I go to bed with the gloppy mascara and all.
Keri Russell -
We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
Barack Obama