Barack Obama Quotes
One thing you learn in this job [being US President] is that even if something's not your fault, you're still responsible. And that's how it should be.Barack Obama
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I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
Vera Farmiga -
I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
Utah Phillips -
The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
Ted Nelson -
Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
Gary Sinise -
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
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
Frances Beinecke -
I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
Tamala Jones -
The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand -
I do not want to be sheriff of Hillsborough County, seriously.
Pam Bondi -
America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
Edmund White -
I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.
Carl Sandburg
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The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.
Harold H. Greene -
I'm not a top-five player yet. Maybe I'm close to it, but I still have to work on some aspects. You can only be part of that group if you are decisive in the top games.
Eden Hazard -
My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.
Kareena Kapoor Khan -
It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.
Walter O'Brien -
I'd like to open an animal orphanage in Kenya. I do a lot of work for Born Free.
Rachel Hunter -
Roads do not upgrade or maintain themselves. Bridges do not repair themselves or rebuild themselves.
Martin O'Malley
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I have actually five honorary degrees.
Katherine Dunham -
I never know going in if I've even got a movie to make. Once you start making a film, you hope there's going to be enough material! My job as a director is always to push for more.
Asif Kapadia -
A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
Adam Cohen -
You happily give Facebook terabytes of structured data about yourself, content with the implicit tradeoff that Facebook is going to give you a social service that makes your life better.
John Battelle -
One thing you learn in this job [being US President] is that even if something's not your fault, you're still responsible. And that's how it should be.
Barack Obama