Barack Obama Quotes

With the magnitude of the challenges we face right now, what we need in Washington are not more political tactics, we need more good ideas. We don't need more point scoring, we need more problem solving.

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• 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
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  • Work
  • Mind

• I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan.

  

  Pat Paulsen
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  • Great
  • Pretty

• Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.

  

  Harold Washington
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  • Action
  • Place

• The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

  

  E. M. Forster
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  • Mind
  • Free

• By uploading 40 years of 'Ecologist' editions online, we will be creating the world's most extensive ecological archive. 'The Ecologist' will continue to set the environmental and political agenda here and abroad.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • World
  • Political
  • Environmental

• I think it's very hard to find a good friend. That's why I'm so lucky to have two sisters, because they're my best friends, and they have to be with me forever. They're stuck with me.

  

  Kate Upton
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  • Why
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• We Germans should know that we're good at constructing cars, and we have a lot of good qualities. But we're not the funniest.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
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  • Know
  • Qualities

• I take these vitamins that make my hair grow like crazy. They're called Herpanacine, and I get them on Amazon - they've got echinacea and vitamins A and E. They're really good for your immune system, too. You don't get sick, and they really help your skin, hair, and nails.

  

  Kacy Hill
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  • Help
  • Crazy

• I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

  

  P. J. Harvey
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  • Music
  • Soul

• I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.

  

  J. Cole
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  • Stop
  • Myself

• I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

  

  Taylor Swift
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  • Practice
  • Guitar

• A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Love
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  • Friendship

• I'm used to being surrounded by really smart 22-year-old students who have no problem saying that something I suggested is not a very good idea.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
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  • Problem
  • Smart

• I read the script for 'Somnia' when I was filming 'Oculus,' and I remember calling my manager going, 'I really need to do this movie,' and he's like, 'How about you finish this one first and then you see it?' I was like, 'I don't need to. I don't need to. You need to read this. I need to do this movie. The script is very good.'

  

  Katee Sackhoff
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  • Remember
  • Movie

• The materialism, the brashness, the misogyny - everything in hip-hop is amplified. Misogyny is a good example of something that is completely amplified in hip-hop. I do think there is more than enough of a balance, though, for fans who are willing to search it out.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
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  • Balance
  • Search

• I would welcome satirical references to political leaders as part of freedom of expression.

  

  Kapil Sibal
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  • Freedom
  • Welcome

• I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.

  

  Rami Malek
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• Anything you can do to get more people to come to your live shows is good, because that's where you can really do what you do. Everyone's on the same page, and you don't have to win strangers over as much.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • People
  • Good
  • Live

• Children will go with any story as long as it's good, but white adults sometimes think that if a black child's on the cover, it is perhaps not for them.

  

  Malorie Blackman
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  • Long
  • Children

• I need good friends who can say, 'I love you to death, but you look terrible in that, and you need to change right now.'

  

  Blake Lively
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  • Friends
  • Death

• He that hath eaten a bear-pie, will always smell of the garden.

  

  James Howell
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• I like to consider myself a relatively spiritual person, and I just do my thing. I'm very focused on what I do professionally, and I'm very focused on my family, and I don't really get too stressed out about what people say or what other people think.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Family
  • Myself

• People are always invading your personal space on set, especially on 'The Walking Dead.'

  

  Andrew Lincoln
  • People
  • Space
  • Walking

• With the magnitude of the challenges we face right now, what we need in Washington are not more political tactics, we need more good ideas. We don't need more point scoring, we need more problem solving.

  

  Barack Obama
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  • Political