Barack Obama Quotes

I don't expect to get 100 percent of what I want, but what we can't do is go back to the kind of top-down economics that doesn't work.

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• I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
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• It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

  

  Barbara Kruger
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• We want to believe that we're invulnerable, and that people who get tricked deserve it. Well, they don't. And someday the arrogant types who mock the gullible are likely to get their turn to wear the dunce cap.

  

  Walter Kirn
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• The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced and out of breath. There isn't time for reflection or critical self-examination.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
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• When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
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• I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.

  

  Ice Cube
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• I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.

  

  Nancy Meyers
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• Sexual harassment at work... is it a problem for the self-employed?

  

  Victoria Wood
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• Research indicates that employees have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.

  

  Zig Ziglar
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• I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing them out.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
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• I still get excited by working with big names. You have that initial moment of, 'Oh my goodness, I'm going to work with Tom Cruise!'

  

  Malin Akerman
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• I've been working on the screen right from childhood and am completely in love with my work. And this experience has taught me that ultimately, it's a good script, good work that matters, whether in Bollywood or in the South.

  

  Hansika Motwani
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• It's surreal to think that I own this beautiful island. It doesn't feel like anyone can own Lanai. What it feels like to me is this really cool 21st-century engineering project, where I get to work with the people of Lanai to create a prosperous and sustainable Eden in the Pacific.

  

  Larry Ellison
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• I believe much of the pain of a breakup comes from having a life plan that you have fallen in love with. When it does not work out, you become angry that you now have to pursue a new life plan.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
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• I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.

  

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika
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• I never really grasped how big it was when I initially got 'Alexander'; I thought, 'Ooh, this is exciting,' but after I got home, I looked back and thought, 'That was an incredible experience.' I got to work with some massive names in Hollywood, and I learnt so much, and then it really kind of struck me how life-changing it was.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
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• I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
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• I don't really want to make this sound depressing, but I will say that I didn't really have my first kiss until really, really late.

  

  Bebe Rexha
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• I met Kim Kardashian the other week, and she knew who I was! I walked in the room, and she was like, 'I should text Kanye saying you're here; he showed me your music.' It's really hard to digest. Also, I don't think you should digest stuff like that.

  

  Sam Smith
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• By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.

  

  David Ricardo
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• No one goes into standup to make money. The frustration and rejection are just too much.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
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• A 90-minute time frame is not long enough to tell a good female story, and that's why long-format television has become so great for female storytelling and for female performers and directors and writers.

  

  Frances McDormand
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• I don't expect to get 100 percent of what I want, but what we can't do is go back to the kind of top-down economics that doesn't work.

  

  Barack Obama
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