Barack Obama Quotes

I put forward a budget of what I called "middle-class economics" that continues to be fiscally prudent but makes necessary investments for us to continue the economic momentum and job growth.

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• America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • America
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• I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Give
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  • Comeback

• You know, I endeavor to be more like my older brother. He's very magnetic. He's actually very much like 'Castle' in that people are attracted to him, and just want to be near him. You want to know where my brother is in a crowded room? He's the guy with the crowd around him.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
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• When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Work
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• I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Life
  • Done
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• I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.

  

  Halsey
  • Good
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• I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Fighting

• I have American in-laws, and I care about the environment. We don't use disposable diapers, which, of course, creates an environmental problem of our own.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • American
  • Environment
  • Environmental

• Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Problem
  • Responsibility
  • Environment

• Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • College
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• Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
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• Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • True
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  • Israel

• We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.

  

  Quavo Migos
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• I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Books
  • Writer
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• My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary.

  

  Patrick Roy
  • Life
  • City
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• I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Myself
  • Hell
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• If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all. And if you do have to say it, make it really funny so I can screenshot it and save it for later.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Funny
  • Nice
  • Save

• I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.

  

  Aaron Funk
  • Play
  • Thing
  • Inspiring

• I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike. I know that because I don't come from a wealthy background.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Job
  • Worry

• The solidarity - now, you can`t challenge Donald Trump until he gets there White House, but let me tell you, we are united. We are going to do our job.

  

  Bill Press
  • Job
  • Challenge
  • Donald Trump

• Hopefully, whether it's energy or child vaccines, the case of the many benefits helping countries so that they are stable, so these refugee problems that have been troubling for Europe - a little less so for the U.S. but, even so, a lot of controversy there - these things are why the future's going to be better than the past. People really do look to the United States, so we'll be there making the case.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Energy
  • Benefits
  • Child vaccines

• I put forward a budget of what I called "middle-class economics" that continues to be fiscally prudent but makes necessary investments for us to continue the economic momentum and job growth.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Job
  • Growth
  • Jobs