Barack Obama Quotes

If we truly believe in our public schools, then we have a moral responsibility to do better - to break the either-or mentality around school reform, and embrace a both-and mentality. Good schools will require both the structural reform and the resources necessary to prepare our kids for the future.

Barack Obama

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• I believe very strongly in the value of having a diverse team around me that comes from very different backgrounds and different points of view.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Team

• If I want to speculate wildly about the future, I have my science fiction. Anybody who tells you they can predict the future is either crazy or lying.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Future
  • Science
  • Crazy

• The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Rest

• I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Kids
  • Everything
  • Sorry

• I believe in eating what I like and sweating it out in the gym.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Believe
  • Gym
  • I Believe

• Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Kids
  • Future
  • Coffee

• But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Up
  • Good
  • Dad

• I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the violence surrounding the Civil Rights Movement.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • School
  • High
  • Violence

• I'm aware people will think I've had an easy way into a dream career. My view is, if anyone has opportunities, they'll take them. My surname opens doors, but those doors will slam firmly if I'm no good.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • People
  • Good
  • Career

• My unusual beauty tip is that I often use Vaseline to take my make up off. It works great and is good for sensitive skin.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• When you really work hard for something that you genuinely and truly love, and you don't want it to fail, it's a good feeling to see it do good.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Good
  • Work
  • Love

• People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • People
  • Believe
  • Credit

• Regardless of who you are, I believe that everybody in this country is entitled to justice.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Justice

• 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
  • Good
  • Problem
  • Smart

• During my many years in international business and public life, I have had the good fortune of sitting down for lunch with people with whom I completely disagreed, in practice and principle: Soviet communists, heads of state from various unsavory regimes, benighted religious figures, corrupt business leaders.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I think an old-school Western would kind of be really up my alley and would be so fun, I'm so comfortable in that genre and around horses.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Up
  • School
  • Fun

• I talk periodically with the producers at EA and I try to be as honest as possible because as great as EA does, you just don't want to hear good things. These people are really passionate about making games and making them as realistic as possible.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• Primary-school education is a crock, basically. It's oppressive to anyone with physical energy, especially guys.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • School
  • Energy
  • Education

• I believe in equality: guys have rights, women have rights. It should be the same with race, or class, or whatever. I just like balance.

  

  Little Simz
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Balance

• For years, the Bush Administration eviscerated all the military and legal structures that were designed to separate the innocent from the guilty in the 'Global War on Terror.'

  

  Alex Gibney
  • War
  • Military
  • Guilty

• Once upon a time there was a Once upon a time there was a Once upon a time there was a Stop this. It's undignified.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Time
  • Stop

• Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are taking up their pens to paint a portrait of Jesus.

  

  John Clayton
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Jesus

• I work for a place that's been great to me over the years, and when you make a mistake, you're hurting your company as well.

  

  John King
  • Work
  • Great
  • Mistake

• If we truly believe in our public schools, then we have a moral responsibility to do better - to break the either-or mentality around school reform, and embrace a both-and mentality. Good schools will require both the structural reform and the resources necessary to prepare our kids for the future.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Believe
  • School