Barack Obama Quotes
I know what the counterterrorism feels like because I was there. But I also operated within limits. And within the United States government, we've decided long ago that there are limits on what we're going to do in the war against terrorism.
Quotes to Explore
-
My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
-
I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
-
I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
-
Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
-
Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
-
My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
-
I'm a fan of Bjork, a fan of Premier, you know, those are the first two names that come to my mind. You know, I've learned a lot from every person I've collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I've taken something important away from every experience.
-
All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
-
If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
-
I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
-
When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I don't know what to say, really.
-
It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
-
When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
-
I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that.
-
Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
-
We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.
-
The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive.
-
Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
-
She must have walked through life with men like him falling at her feet, squashing them underfoot like autumn leaves. It probably happened so often that all she noticed was that nice crunching sound.
-
Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight.
-
I have never seen such a defiance of death.
-
Every great genius has an admixture of madness.
-
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
-
I know what the counterterrorism feels like because I was there. But I also operated within limits. And within the United States government, we've decided long ago that there are limits on what we're going to do in the war against terrorism.
