Barack Obama Quotes
One thing I will not compromise over is whether or not Congress should pay the tab for a bill they've already racked up. If Congress refuses to give the United States the ability to pay its bills on time, the consequences for the entire global economy could be catastrophic.
Barack Obama
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The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.
Zygmunt Bauman
The Saints are the elect children of the spouse of Christ, the precious fruit of her body; they are her crown of glory. And when these dear children quit her to reap their eternal reward, the mother retains precious memorials of them and holds up their example to her other children to encourage them to follow their glorious traces.
Sabine Baring-Gould
I have a tough time with stand-up because I am an improviser. I can riff; I can do crowd work, so I don't prepare.
T. J. Miller
That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist.
Tanya Tucker
Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism.
Gary Bauer
The Laboratory for Radioactivity consisted of only two rooms at the time; at a later date, when tests of radioactive substances became more extensive, it expanded into four rooms.
Walther Bothe
We don't have a jewellery background, so we just come up with these things that we wanna wear, that we wish were out there, you know?
Yoon Ahn
And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time.
Carl Yastrzemski
I've spent more time in hospitals than some fellows ever spend in church.
Rabbit Maranville
When people say this isn't the America they grew up in, they're right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.
Gail Collins
It's funny because I grew up with the T.V. on 24 hours a day. And the more money I made, the more T.V.s we had.
Gaby Hoffmann
In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People wanted to be like Americans. In contrast, when I got here, I saw prosperous middle-class American college students wanting to somehow join the Third World.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names.
Wayne Newton
I think that when you're making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.
Taylor Swift
I want to make music that somehow connects to the things that I love in America music.
Joanna Newsom
To me idealized characters are so boring to play, especially having grown up in the classical theater. That's a great experience, but as a woman, especially, you've played a lot of idealized characters. So when you've got someone who has weaknesses as well as strengths, that's interesting.
Annette Bening
My first three novels were all the subjects of intensely exciting flurries of calls from producers and even stars' production companies, and once someone actually hired a screenwriter to adapt one of my books - but it all came to nothing, so I tried not to get too excited when a Hollywood suitor came calling for 'Admission,' my fourth novel.
Jean Hanff Korelitz
One thing I will not compromise over is whether or not Congress should pay the tab for a bill they've already racked up. If Congress refuses to give the United States the ability to pay its bills on time, the consequences for the entire global economy could be catastrophic.
Barack Obama
