Barack Obama Quotes

He described to me how crocodiles kill more people than sharks. There are just a lot of things in Australia that can kill you.

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• If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Year

• This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Mind
  • Identity
  • Speech

• If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.

  

  Yuna
  • Morning
  • Myself
  • Cool

• At my core, I know that the American Dream is about the opportunity to work hard to make your future.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Work
  • American
  • Future

• I decided to be heterosexual because I felt like that's the life God intended me to live.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Life
  • God
  • Live

• Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Me
  • Boxing
  • Early

• I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • House
  • Leader

• No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Hope
  • Courage
  • Homosexual

• I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Good
  • Age
  • Always

• We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with 'Shooting Fish.' Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Good
  • Silly
  • Dumb

• If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • God
  • Liberal
  • Suggestions

• Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Better
  • Class
  • Environmental

• My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Mother
  • Giving
  • Ending

• From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • House
  • Moment
  • White

• However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Human
  • Rights
  • Human Rights

• All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Never
  • Give
  • Encouragement

• When I looked at the skeleton of 'Damn Yankees,' I saw an indestructible story, absolutely original characters, one of the freshest, sassiest American scores of the century, and some outmoded equipment.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • American
  • Story
  • Original

• Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all these things that make us fall for someone, love someone even more, leave someone.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • People
  • Love
  • For Her

• Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, it's a place where people go to find something - to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well.

  

  Colin Hay Men at Work
  • People
  • Real
  • Quality

• By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band.

  

  Tommy Shaw Styx
  • Band
  • Learned
  • Solo Album

• There are new studies showing that young men and men with more progressive views of what a father should be - which is not just a helper and fun parent, but actually a partner - are beginning to feel more work-life conflict than mothers are. They're trying to do what women have been doing for 30 years, and they're having a very stressful time of it - a harder time at work because we still expect men to be on 24-7, working 40 years straight.

  

  Brigid Schulte
  • Men
  • Views
  • Studies

• It's not that I dislike many people. It's just that I don't like many people.

  

  Bryant Gumbel
  • People

• He described to me how crocodiles kill more people than sharks. There are just a lot of things in Australia that can kill you.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
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  • Australia