Barack Obama Quotes

I would have I think made a bigger mistake if I had said, "Eh, chemical weapons. That doesn't really change my calculus." I think it was important for me as president of the United States to send a message that in fact there is something different about chemical weapons [in Syria].

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• Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Good
  • Important
  • Remember

• Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Good
  • Music
  • Important

• The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Different
  • Working
  • Camera

• Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Important
  • Been
  • Destination

• The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Important
  • America
  • History

• I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.

  

  Zak Orth
  • People
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  • Think

• I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing a lot of important things across the continent.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
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  • Friends
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• I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.

  

  Action Bronson
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Science
  • Myself
  • Mistake

• To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Life
  • Believe
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• I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Thinking
  • Future
  • Past

• We should all feel confident in our intelligence. By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
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  • Book
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• At 20 and 30, we are like travelers in a foreign country, reading the guide book to learn how to behave, to learn when the post office is open. Trivia looms important; critical issues fade into a pastel background, unrecognized.

  

  Karen DeCrow
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  • Country
  • Book

• A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Time
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  • Women

• It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Time
  • Important
  • Character

• It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.

  

  Frances Wright
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  • Power
  • Race

• Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
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  • Law
  • Psychology

• Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • People
  • Different
  • Women

• I hit my knees and I went to him with that and I said God I want to do what you want. I don't want sports to be an idol in my life.

  

  Ben Zobrist
  • Life
  • God
  • Sports

• I wanted to make a redemptive thriller that didn't end with some kind of big, crazy shootout and blood spill, but more of a collision of ideas and a discussion of ethics.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Crazy
  • Ethics

• I started as a journalist for magazines in New York City, so it was always storytelling. And moving into movies was a natural transition.

  

  Bruce Feirstein
  • City
  • Moving

• I would have I think made a bigger mistake if I had said, "Eh, chemical weapons. That doesn't really change my calculus." I think it was important for me as president of the United States to send a message that in fact there is something different about chemical weapons [in Syria].

  

  Barack Obama
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