Barack Obama Quotes

I think that part of my optimism comes from the belief that we as a people could actually, regardless of all the disadvantage of the past, regardless of the fact that a lot of other folks got a head start in the race, if we were able to make the race fair right now.

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• There have been interviews with people saying they are jealous of Kangana. There are so many people who are jealous of my success.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Success
  • Saying

• Standing up on the right to trial by jury is something that, really, a lot of people should agree with, you know, both on the Right and the Left.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Up
  • Know

• In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Past
  • Present
  • Write

• IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade - as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible.

  

  Samuel J. Palmisano
  • People
  • Winning
  • Exercise

• I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do people do it, for years and years?

  

  Sam Shepard
  • People
  • Me
  • Always

• It's not even race; it's a certain type of person that gets 'Pootie Tang.'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Person
  • Race
  • Type

• Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.

  

  Karen Kain
  • People
  • Love
  • Remember

• In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Past
  • Season
  • Colleagues

• You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • People
  • Book
  • Fun

• There are hundreds of books about Woodrow Wilson, but I have an image of him in my mind that is unlike any picture I have seen anywhere else, based on material at Princeton and 35 years of researching and thinking about him.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Picture

• I love collaborating with different people.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • People
  • Different
  • Collaborating

• I don't think I can play a role without falling in love with something about her; even the most despicable people who I have portrayed had some aspect of them which I found beautiful.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • People
  • Love
  • Beautiful

• Basically, the Internet is just the way now. It's the end-all, be-all of self-promotion. It's not like you got to burn CDs and pass them out or sell them. The Internet is a tool that reaches billions and billions of people. It's like a no-brainer to tie it in with self-promotion, or even label promotion.

  

  Wale
  • People
  • Internet
  • Now

• Software tends not to kill people, and so we accept incredibly fast innovation loops because the consequences are tolerable and the results are astonishing.

  

  Dan Kaminsky
  • People
  • Innovation
  • Software

• Whenever you write music, you want it to touch people on a certain level. I mean, I've been reading tweets about 'Troublemaker' and people saying 'OMG, I can so relate to this - this is a guy that I fancy, or a girl that I fancy; it's exactly like this person.'

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Music
  • Guy

• When you are just starting out with an online business, there's a good chance that you'll be making several mistakes. Because of the mistakes that can be made with starting an online business, many people decide to quit or think that online businesses are just a scam.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • People
  • Good
  • Business

• You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that... we're more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them - they feel good.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • People
  • Good
  • End

• By regulating marijuana, we can put black market drug dealers out of business and eliminate the rebellious allure that attracts young people.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • People
  • Business
  • Black

• God is not the tribal deity of one group of “chosen” people. God is not for us and against all others. God is for us and for them, too. God loves everyone everywhere, no exceptions.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • People
  • God
  • Tribal deity

• You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Creativity
  • Use
  • Have

• The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Family
  • History
  • Past

• It's rare that I'm not at work on some sort of craft project. I've often enthused about the need to make things; how it employs a unique set of muscles - physical, intellectual, spiritual - that I can attain a state of flow when making something that I almost never can when writing.

  

  David Rakoff
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Spiritual

• I was almost expecting the Olympics to be the biggest thing ever, but it wasn't. It was just another race.

  

  Jonathan Brownlee

• I think that part of my optimism comes from the belief that we as a people could actually, regardless of all the disadvantage of the past, regardless of the fact that a lot of other folks got a head start in the race, if we were able to make the race fair right now.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Past