Barack Obama Quotes

That support has been so constant and gracious and loving. Michelle and I have never felt as if, at any stage, folks didn't have our backs. And as a consequence, I think that just spurred us on that much more to make us want to do the right thing, and do our best in the positions that we have.

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• If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • People
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• There is a huge reservoir of support for abortion rights from ordinary women. I hear all the time from women who had abortions and say it made possible the good life they went on to have. Social shaming silences too many.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• I think with girlfriends, you always want your girlfriends to make the decisions for themselves, not based on a boy, not based on anything other than, 'Is this what you want?' Is this you know what you want to do?' And that's real support to me.

  

  Kat Graham
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• I haven't found it to be particularly enjoyable... ninety percent of the time when I go on dates, I'm thinking, 'I could be reading my book instead.'

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Time
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  • Book

• If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
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• I was thinking as a little girl growing up that I would be there. When I look at whether we can go to Mars, it's definitely something we can do.

  

  Mae Jemison
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• Classic cable TV may have hit its peak, but it's still a huge force, and the streaming apps of many cable networks still require you to authenticate that you're a paying cable customer every time you want to use a new such TV app.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Time
  • May
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• A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Truth
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• I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Heart
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  • Dream

• When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Business
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  • Style

• I do not support a livable wage.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Support
  • Wage
  • Livable

• When you're first reading the script and thinking about playing the part, it's slightly daunting. It's easy to question, 'Is an audience going to like me? And is that my job?'

  

  Laura Dern
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Reading

• If you are a researcher and want to publish a paper, if you are applying for money either from a private or public foundation, you have to have a DSM code.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Money
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  • Foundation

• We need a NASA-like organization for ocean exploration, because we need to be exploring and protecting our life support systems here on Earth.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Support

• Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Color

• We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or get angry. But for the most part, we find it difficult to read each other most of the time. If you walk through the street, most people are pretty difficult to read. But they're thinking inside.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• A tactic used by authors of virtually every single book I've ever read that propounds a conspiracy theory is to attack an agency as being part of a conspiracy in the Kennedy assassination, but when this same agency comes up with something favorable to the author's position, the author will cite that same agency as credible support for his argument.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Up
  • Book
  • Support

• One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Money
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  • Nothing

• ...I think there's only one thing that anybody teaches, and this is character. And I think that whether you are teaching history, math, or biology, or music, what you are really doing is, you are helping to shape the character of that person who is your student... Music is such a wonderful teaching tool, because while you are developing musical skills, that student can learn a lot about discipline and cooperation.

  

  Rich Mullins
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Discipline

• I think it works differently for everyone. Some people do amazing things with research, but for me, it just gets convoluted, and I start to think too much.

  

  Dove Cameron
  • People
  • Amazing

• In France, I have lots of opportunities. Maybe now I'll be offered films in America. It's the encounter, with the director and the story that counts.

  

  Jean Dujardin
  • America

• Sure, I'm an optimistic, joyous person, but I'm also afraid and insecure.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Persons
  • Optimistic
  • Insecure

• That support has been so constant and gracious and loving. Michelle and I have never felt as if, at any stage, folks didn't have our backs. And as a consequence, I think that just spurred us on that much more to make us want to do the right thing, and do our best in the positions that we have.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • Support