Barack Obama Quotes
We may have different backgrounds, but we believe in the same dream that says this is a country where anything's possible. No matter who you are. No matter where you come from.Barack Obama
Quotes to Explore
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I don't believe in one ideal beauty.
Zac Posen -
The treatment by some towards these young refugees is hideously racist and utterly heartless. What's happening to our country?
Gary Lineker -
I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.
Bao Dai -
Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.
Nancy Kress -
I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.
Walter Salles -
When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
Ralph Bellamy
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I'm not a sandwich store that only sells turkey sandwiches. I sell a lot of different things.
Lady Gaga -
I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.
T. C. Boyle -
I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.
Imelda Staunton -
I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
Mallory Jansen -
There's about one sword-swallower per 2 to 4 million persons in each country.
Hans Rosling -
Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
H. L. Mencken
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Bringing GIS into schools gets the kids very excited and indirectly teaches them different components of STEM education. That's been illustrated at school after school.
Jack Dangermond -
Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation.
T. J. Miller -
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
Victor Hugo -
You get callbacks, and they either give it to what they call a 'name' performer, or they decide to go in an entirely different direction.
Tanya Fischer -
Creativity may be hard to nurture, but it's easy to thwart.
Adam Grant -
However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
Wally Lamb
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
A. S. Byatt -
Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality.
John Muir -
Everyone was telling me you have this great potential and you can be on top. I didn't believe that, but everyone was just telling me to believe in myself. I did and I'm kind of up on top and it's amazing.
Gabby Douglas -
What would I have done if I'd been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I hardly knew? Probably, I would have looked the other way at best or become another apologist for evil at worst.
Lionel Blue -
To recognize that some of the things our culture believes are not true imposes on us the duty of finding out which are true and which are not.
Allan Bloom -
We may have different backgrounds, but we believe in the same dream that says this is a country where anything's possible. No matter who you are. No matter where you come from.
Barack Obama