Barack Obama Quotes

Here's the truth: even if countries like the United States curb our emissions, if growing countries like India - with soaring energy needs - don't also embrace cleaner fuels, then we don't stand a chance against climate change.

Barack Obama

• Truth
• Energy
• Growing

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• My parents always encouraged us to get an education and establish a profession. However, my brothers and I grew up with considerable freedom, whether it was saving or spending our tips from the restaurant or our career choices.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Up
  • Career
  • Parents

• I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Economics

• So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Long
  • Freedom
  • Law

• Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Internet
  • Television

• I learned that instead of relying on and imitating American music, there is a better chance for an Asian artist to succeed if he or she follows his or her own culture.

  

  Rain
  • Music
  • She
  • American

• I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Better
  • Outside
  • Outsider

• I am not in the business of suppressing books.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Business
  • Books
  • Suppressing

• I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Internet

• Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Work
  • Society
  • Black

• I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • World
  • Music
  • Long

• If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Long
  • Wait

• Americans should never believe, even incorrectly, that one's criminal activity will go unpunished simply because it was committed on behalf of a corporation.

  

  Sally Yates
  • Believe
  • Never
  • Will

• It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.

  

  Madison Marlow
  • Up
  • Country
  • Song

• I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Time
  • Know
  • Hard

• There is a unique freshness when eating buckwheat noodles cold with plenty of herbs and citrus acidity. I can't think of any better use of chopsticks on a hot and sweaty evening.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Better
  • Unique
  • Cold

• Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Why
  • Party
  • Speak

• The first job I got was this TV job in this show called 'The Unusuals.' Then I did a play called 'Slipping,' and at the same time I was rehearsing another play at Playwrights Horizons, and that kind of snowballed into a bunch of plays.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Time
  • Job
  • Same

• Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Always
  • Charming
  • Rehearsals

• It's rare that I turn down a photo or autograph, because these are the people that support me, so why not support them. I love it and I invite it. I love what I do and the whole 'celebrity' life and all that.

  

  Lance Gross
  • People
  • Life
  • Celebrity

• To tell you the truth, I was turning into a little spoiled brat after 'Rocky V.'

  

  Sage Stallone
  • Truth
  • You
  • Rocky

• The things that I have said when I was young and curious about whatever the subject matter was, I respect those - those are growing pains. Even if you make mistakes, I go back to those things, my not-so-great moments because those are my truest moments; those are my human moments. I'm not even mad at the things I said that were a little dicey.

  

  Nas
  • Great
  • Growing
  • Respect

• They say that time heals a broken heart, but time has stood still since we've been apart.

  

  Don Gibson
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Broken

• Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Philosophy
  • Means
  • Rather

• Here's the truth: even if countries like the United States curb our emissions, if growing countries like India - with soaring energy needs - don't also embrace cleaner fuels, then we don't stand a chance against climate change.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Truth
  • Energy
  • Growing