Barack Obama Quotes

The things that led me to run for office - trying to figure out how we create an economy where everybody's got a fair shot and if you work hard, you can achieve your dreams.

Barack Obama

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• I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Running
  • Space
  • Hiking

• It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Good
  • Work
  • Mind

• I think people do their bravest work when given an elusive canvas. That would be seemingly the weirdest, but also the most wonderful.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Work
  • Think

• It would be incredible to work with Stanley Kubrick and go back in time.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Time
  • Work
  • Back

• What people are looking for are candidates and representatives that are going to work hard, tell it like it is. I'm unafraid to do things when it doesn't poll well.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • People
  • Work
  • Work Hard

• I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Me

• I'm shy. I am. I mean, if I get around, you know, in a room of a bunch of people especially I - you know, I don't know or - it takes me a while to warm up. I'm - and the real me, I'm not as witty as, you know, as the comic Wanda. The comic, she's had time to work on some things.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Work
  • Real
  • Witty

• Getting into the residential investment business entails lots of renovation work.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Work
  • Business
  • Investment

• I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedback, I wanted communication from the boss. I showed up for work, you can yell at me if you want, but I want input. So that's the kind of coach I want to be.

  

  Adam Oates
  • Up
  • Work
  • Player

• Don't get me wrong: there are some fantastic people who work at British Cycling who kept me together, who were there when I was struggling with it all. They were walking the same tightrope in many ways, because if you do speak up, your days are numbered.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • Dream
  • Reality
  • Point

• Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.

  

  Ma Long
  • Work
  • Step
  • Hard Work

• The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there can not be two standards of work and wages for any trade without constant menace to the higher standard.

  

  Florence Kelley
  • Work
  • Women
  • See

• Most of my books begin with a nap on my couch here, when I dream up characters and story lines, and then I write on my laptop in the recliner and handle the business side of email at my desk, which is sagging in the middle - maybe from so many words?

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Business
  • Dream

• There's something really unique about 'Orphan Black' is that it has a lot of female leads, so it's about a lot of women's stories, but it's not women's stories in terms of trying to find a guy or keep a guy; it's about entirely other things.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Guy

• While I was at Cornell in engineering, I was an engineering co-op student, and that turned out to be very valuable because we'd go out every other term to work in industry and have that close association with industry.

  

  Irwin M. Jacobs
  • Work
  • Engineering
  • Student

• I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Work
  • Talk
  • Irony

• Competing in London would be a dream come true.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • True
  • Dream
  • London

• I just love sport; I love competing. I'm obsessed by it, to be honest. I can accept losing, sure, no question, but it just drives me crazy. Just ask my wife.

  

  James Spithill
  • Question
  • Wife
  • Crazy

• Have you seen the Broadway version of 'The Lion King?' Go and see it. That's where the future of musical is.

  

  Colm Wilkinson
  • Future
  • King
  • Lion

• I'm 5'11, so when I wear heels, it's definitely a really good view that I have. I'm, like, 6'2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Good
  • View
  • Cowboy

• I still have the first bottle opener I made on my MakerBot. Things you fabricate are things you care more about. I think there will always be people who go and buy crap at the dollar store. But I think it is cool when people craft things themselves.

  

  Bre Pettis
  • People
  • Cool

• It seems like every game, we have chances to get on the board first but we're not capitalizing. We're firing blanks right now.

  

  Bob Hartley
  • Game
  • Chances
  • Capitalizing

• The things that led me to run for office - trying to figure out how we create an economy where everybody's got a fair shot and if you work hard, you can achieve your dreams.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Dream