Barack Obama Quotes

And with iPods and iPads, and Xboxes and PlayStations - none of which I know how to work - information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation.

Barack Obama

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• I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.

  

  Sally Field
  • Work
  • Changed
  • Studio

• I have an issue with rage. I'm going to work that out, long term.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • Work
  • Long
  • Rage

• I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Right
  • Coffee
  • Ingredients

• I am just like Dr. Armaan - fun-loving, flirtatious, and tension-free. I am serious about my work, but apart from that, I am always playing pranks on people. As a viewer, I relate more to 'Dil Mill Gayye.'

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • People
  • Work
  • Fun

• I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Work
  • Love
  • Know

• When you're a woman, you have to work harder to get a laugh... I follow so many hilarious women on Twitter. It's a daily reminder that women get to be funny.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Work
  • Women
  • Funny

• I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Work
  • Control
  • Singing

• I was so worried when I left 'GH:' so scared I'd never work again.

  

  Nathan Parsons
  • Work
  • Never
  • Scared

• I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Mean
  • Point
  • Move

• Whenever I get an audition to do something that is sci-fi-related, it makes me really happy because I realize that I can continue doing the work that I'm doing and continue meeting people all over the world. It does baffle my management team sometimes, though!

  

  J. August Richards
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• My father always said I have a face for radio, and 'Cloverfield' was one of my finest pieces of work.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Work
  • Father
  • Face

• I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.

  

  Gale Gordon
  • Work
  • Joy
  • Very

• Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • Know
  • Years

• When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Work
  • Passion
  • Better

• All writers, in all viewpoints, must choose which information and scenes will be presented, and in which order. In that sense, the author is always represented as a point of view in a work of fiction. His hand can always be detected by the discerning.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Work
  • Hand
  • Information

• Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Work
  • Always

• Voting to go on strike is not a decision working people take lightly and is always accompanied by a strong sense of injustice at work. The impact of losing a day's pay is significant, not least for those in the lowest paid jobs who are already on the tightest budgets.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • People
  • Work
  • Strong

• I don't have one role that I want to play. I guess... I want to be a producer. I want to be an activist. I want to be proactive in bringing about work for men, women, boys, girls, everybody who is good at what they do and deserve a shot at it.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Good
  • Work
  • Men

• But I want to do good work, after this series.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Good
  • Work
  • Good Work

• I don't really know how to work a camera.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Work
  • Know
  • Camera

• The principle of fasting is taught in almost all major world religions as a means of developing a higher level of self-mastery and self-control, and also a deeper awareness of how really dependent we are.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • World
  • Mean
  • Motivational

• When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Up
  • Internet
  • Coffee

• I look at Las Vegas, and I see the absolute best of what we are as Americans, and I see the absolute worst, in the same city.

  

  Joe Carnahan
  • City
  • Vegas

• And with iPods and iPads, and Xboxes and PlayStations - none of which I know how to work - information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Mean
  • Xbox