Barack Obama Quotes

But I do believe there are certain principles that are universal. I think that all people want basic dignity and want basic freedom, and want to be able to worship as they please without being discriminated against, or they should be able to speak their mind about an important issue pertaining to their community without being arrested.

Barack Obama

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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
  • Good
  • Work
  • Mind

• If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Fight

• People are totally overusing LOL and a wink - and I'm very guilty of using the wink - that's probably my favourite emoticon to use because 'I'm being sarcastic, don't misinterpret; don't misconstrue; I'm just kidding.' Again, for as many benefits as it has, also picking up the phone and having a conversation speaks volumes.

  

  Carly Pope
  • People
  • Up
  • Guilty

• The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Life
  • Important
  • Law

• It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • People
  • Always
  • Israel

• In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then accelerating their leadership in ways that is strategic for the broader education reform movement.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Long
  • Experience

• Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Love

• You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Important
  • Balance
  • Too Much

• There's a picture there that people realize that, we stop helping Israel, we lose God's hand, and we're in big time trouble.

  

  Dan Webster
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• It's important in a relationship to have moments when you do your own thing.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Important
  • You
  • Relationship

• People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Think
  • France

• I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Career

• Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.

  

  Nas
  • People
  • Great
  • Experience

• I do believe in happy-ever-after.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Believe
  • Happy

• I am fortunate to have the ability to lend my name to build the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in my hometown of Melbourne. It will be a state-of-the-art facility to help heal the whole person - body, mind and spirit.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Mind
  • Help
  • Spirit

• Mike Judge is very specific about how people look in his projects, and I think it's because he's an animator.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Think
  • Judge

• Marriage is socialism among two people.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Socialism

• The bottom line is, if you're not the one controlling your learning, you're not going to learn as well.

  

  Sugata Mitra
  • Learning
  • Line
  • Controlling

• Oh, we've always been received really, really well there. Extremely well.

  

  Doug Fieger The Knack
  • Treat
  • Well
  • Receive

• Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Life
  • Music
  • Fashion

• George W. Bush and Tony Blair had to convince the world that Saddam Hussein represented an imminent threat. Tony Blair lied when he claimed that Iraq could launch a chemical or biological attack within 45 minutes.

  

  Bianca Jagger
  • World

• Material success is rewarding and a lot of fun, but it's not the most important thing in my life because I know when this is all over, the Master isn't going to ask me how many things I owned or how many television shows I did. I think the questions will be, What did I do to make a difference? Did I learn to live with love in my heart?

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Important
  • Live

• But I do believe there are certain principles that are universal. I think that all people want basic dignity and want basic freedom, and want to be able to worship as they please without being discriminated against, or they should be able to speak their mind about an important issue pertaining to their community without being arrested.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Believe
  • Important