Barack Obama Quotes

There may be no greater tribute to Steve Jobs' success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.

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• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Great
  • Business
  • America

• The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • American
  • Dream

• Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Always
  • Being
  • Apollo

• After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Win
  • Celebrate
  • Ice

• We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

  

  Hal Boyle
  • Man
  • Worry
  • Race

• Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Weird
  • Doing
  • Ways

• Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Up
  • Men
  • Waiting

• If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Why
  • Want
  • Loudest

• I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Think
  • Doing

• I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Audience
  • Moved
  • Active

• We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.

  

  Yuan T. Lee
  • World
  • Good
  • Business

• I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a close relationship with the leaders of our choir. We were recording when I was 15, so it wasn't like I had to wait until 25 to find out certain things.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Different
  • Relationship
  • Professional

• I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Know
  • Doing
  • Pretending

• I am lactose intolerant, and I always thought it was really funny how people who are lactose intolerant continue to eat dairy, because they like it so much. And I find it not acceptable.

  

  Lake Bell
  • People
  • Funny
  • Thought

• To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Others
  • Copy
  • Pathetic

• I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Artist

• In Arab Islamic society, it is traditionally taboo to criticize the lifestyle or personal philosophy of any practicing Muslim.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Society
  • Philosophy
  • Islamic

• It's not up to me to list, like a grocer, my achievements in the government and the Knesset.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Up
  • Me
  • Government

• Love has its source in God, for love is the very essence of His being.

  

  Kay Arthur
  • Love
  • Being
  • Source

• I believe in entrepreneurs. I believe in their ability to make positive change in the world.

  

  Jessica Jackley
  • World
  • Believe
  • Positive

• In Holland, Moroccans automatically also have the Moroccan nationality even if they're born in the Netherlands, because the Moroccan law says that if one of the parents is Moroccan the children wherever they are born in the world are Moroccan as well.The Moroccan youth in the Netherlands between the age of 14 and 23, two-thirds of them have been arrested by the police at least once in their life.

  

  Geert Wilders
  • World
  • Children
  • Age

• I'm a big fan of, like, wearing old, vintage slips and stuff as outdoor wear. I got, like, a pair of these little silk bloomers. I think they were even, like, considered underwear in the '40s. I wore them as shorts the other day.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Think
  • Day
  • Outdoor

• Wear your diamonds on the inside.

  

  Megan Dodds

• There may be no greater tribute to Steve Jobs' success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • May
  • Success