Barack Obama Quotes

Surveys show our standing around the world is higher than when I was elected to this office, and when it comes to every important international issue, people of the world do not look to Beijing or Moscow to lead - they call us.

Barack Obama

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• In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Reality
  • Giving

• People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Culture
  • Without

• Since I was a child, I have had this feeling that the most important work I'd do would be with my family.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Work
  • Important
  • Family

• I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.

  

  Edgar Bergen
  • Important
  • You
  • Questions

• So there clearly is a sense in which the Labour Party here, certainly at State level is reaching out and connecting with people and reflecting the aspirations and needs of, you know the mass of ordinary Australians.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • People
  • Know
  • Party

• I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • People
  • Music
  • May

• When the dollar was separated entirely from gold in 1971, it ceased being the official IMF world currency and finally had to compete with other currencies... From that point forward, its value increasingly became discounted.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • World
  • Value
  • Gold

• I tend to lean toward romance, characters, and relationships when I write, so I have to add to the setting elements and world-building when I revise.

  

  Wendy Higgins
  • World
  • Relationships
  • Romance

• Startling, and alarming to many, is the conclusion that follows from these data that if all people were treated the same, most average race differences would not disappear.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • People
  • Same
  • Data

• I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Want
  • City

• We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Real
  • Know

• Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • People
  • Same
  • Mistakes

• 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

• I've learnt some important lessons: I never rely on the opinion of one doctor alone. I do my own research; I read up and am ready with questions I need answered.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Up
  • Important
  • Alone

• All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Desire
  • Natural

• A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • Up
  • World
  • Beginning

• I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • People
  • Government
  • Congress

• People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • People
  • Good
  • Small

• The real transformation of the world comes not from what we are doing but from the consciousness from which we are doing it.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Real
  • Consciousness

• I am nothing if not rational about what is worthy of my anxiety and what is not, and I refuse to live my life as if a giant bus is just around the corner, waiting to crush me the minute I step off the curb.

  

  Deborah Copaken Kogan
  • Life
  • Live
  • Waiting

• At age 28, I had no retail experience, no consumer marketing experience and no real Internet experience. But I decided I wanted to work for myself. I felt starting a company would enable me to get the responsibility I deserved and that I couldn't do that within the confines of a bigger company.

  

  Mariam Naficy
  • Work
  • Real
  • Experience

• Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear.

  

  Antonio Tabucchi
  • Fear
  • Imagination

• Such is of the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Hands
  • Move
  • Deeds

• Surveys show our standing around the world is higher than when I was elected to this office, and when it comes to every important international issue, people of the world do not look to Beijing or Moscow to lead - they call us.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Important