Barack Obama Quotes

I think that there's a power in that [information through tweets and sound bites ]. There's also a danger, what generates a headline or stirs up a controversy and gets attention isn't the same as the process required to actually solve the problem.

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• I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Where
  • Still
  • Charge

• California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • California
  • Environmental

• In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Free
  • Wish
  • Crazy

• I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Real
  • Bad
  • Know

• I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Good
  • Family
  • Happy

• Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Trouble
  • Laugh
  • Class

• My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • People
  • Friends
  • Reading

• I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Hair
  • Struggle
  • Constant

• I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.

  

  Carlos Ponce
  • Love
  • Doubt
  • Working

• My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Music
  • Love
  • Beatles

• We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • People
  • Think
  • Marriage

• Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.

  

  Edith Head
  • Heart
  • Desire
  • Fashion

• Your best teacher is your last mistake.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Best
  • Mistake
  • Teacher

• And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Done
  • Sex
  • Years

• I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • World
  • American
  • Weird

• I want to, at the end of the day, be able to say, 'I am a runner.'

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Runner

• I probably spend the most time with Toews: we have the same schedule, and we're roomies on the road; we sit next to each other. We do a lot of promotions together.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Time
  • Together
  • Road

• I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

  

  Marcus Porcius Cato
  • Men
  • Why

• I grew up in Africa, in Nigeria. I never knew, I never had any reasonable encounter with football. I saw football on Sky News. I thought there were people dressed like extraterrestrials, you know, like they were going to Mars or something, headgears and shoulder pads. And I wondered why, as a child, why did they have to dress that way.

  

  Bennet Omalu
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• I watch Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann, and Chris Matthews. That's what I watch every night. By the time I've watched them, I don't have time to watch reality TV shows.

  

  Andre Leon Talley
  • Time
  • Night
  • Reality

• I'm not here to judge Mike Tyson. I'm not here to judge nobody. I'm not here to monitor no other fighters. I respect him for what he did in the sport of boxing. He was an entertainer.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Respect
  • Judge
  • Boxing

• I think that there's a power in that [information through tweets and sound bites ]. There's also a danger, what generates a headline or stirs up a controversy and gets attention isn't the same as the process required to actually solve the problem.

  

  Barack Obama
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