Barack Obama Quotes

First and foremost, let us remember that change has never been quick. Change has never been simple, or without controversy. Change depends on persistence. Change requires determination.

Barack Obama

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• Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Career
  • Football
  • inspirational

• Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Remember
  • Write
  • Type

• We can do things that are very, very simple to us that can have a huge impact on others.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Simple
  • Impact
  • Others

• Triple 6 Mafia and Mystikal in Atlanta was one of my first shows. I remember how sweaty and smashed up everybody was, and it was so punk rock.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Rock

• No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Work
  • Find
  • Determination

• I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Remember
  • First
  • Race

• I think my darkest days were probably when I was catering. I would go to these parties and pass out hors d'oeuvres, and it's like you're invisible. I remember one catering captain told me that all you are is a tray that comes into their space for a moment and then you leave. It was one of the most depressing things I've ever been told.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Remember
  • Space
  • Moment

• I remember we would get young, aspiring actors to come on '77 Sunset Strip' - I remember George Kennedy was one of those - and they would do a big guest star part, a lead, and they'd be paid maybe $850.

  

  Edd Byrnes
  • Remember
  • Star
  • Sunset

• Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • People
  • Important
  • May

• Some scientists claim - although these claims are contentious - that they can form deadly isomers with simple X-rays and that hafnium can multiply the power of these X-rays to an astounding degree, converting them into gamma rays up to 250 times more potent than the X-rays.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Up
  • Power
  • Simple

• As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Up
  • Long
  • Remember

• There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Work
  • Great
  • Simple

• I remember the first reading of the script we had and everybody was sitting around the table. I was very impressed with the level of acting that was in the room, particularly with Jennifer who has so much responsibility.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Remember
  • Reading
  • Responsibility

• You remember driving your kids to Little League, and they're nervous about making the team, and you're encouraging them. Forty years down the road, we're having the same conversation. Only it's about the Ravens and Steelers, or Stanford and Cal.

  

  Jack Harbaugh
  • Kids
  • Remember
  • Team

• I still remember asking my high school guidance teacher for permission to take a second year of algebra instead of a fifth year of Latin. She looked down her nose at me and sneered, 'What lady would take mathematics instead of Latin?'

  

  Nancy Roman
  • School
  • She
  • Remember

• Ever since 'Star Wars,' there was a rash of how a movie was made. I remember that as a kid. I never really understood how movies were made until that movie, because it was such a technical accomplishment. Since then, you've seen more and more and more, for all different kinds of films, about what goes into the process.

  

  Patrick Lussier
  • Different
  • Remember
  • Movie

• I've always kind of tried to do something that was a little different than just simple 'I love you, baby'-type songs.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Different
  • Simple
  • Baby

• If I don't write, I hate myself. Simple as that. My life is out of balance.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Life
  • Hate
  • Simple

• The way some of these politicians talk about homosexuality is very insulting. They treat it like it's a disease, like being gay is contagious. Being gay is not contagious. And if you think that it is, YOU'RE GAY.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Gay

• I never knew what was meant by choice of words. It was one word or none.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Words
  • Choice

• Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy.

  

  Jane McGonigal
  • Energy
  • Depression

• The one thing that I learned in college, actually, was that you may reach tremendous highs and tremendous lows.

  

  Jidenna Theodore Mobisson
  • May
  • College

• I live to the rhythm of my country and I cannot remain on the sidelines. I want to be here. I want to be part of it. I want to be a witness. I want to walk arm in arm with it. I want to hear it more and more, to cradle it, to carry it like a medal on my chest. Activism is a constant element in my life, even though afterwards I anguish over not having written 'my own things.' Testimonial literature provides evidence of events that people would like to hide, denounces and therefore is political and part of a country in which everything remains to be done and documented.

  

  Elena Poniatowska
  • People
  • Country
  • Political

• First and foremost, let us remember that change has never been quick. Change has never been simple, or without controversy. Change depends on persistence. Change requires determination.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Remember
  • Simple
  • Determination