Barack Obama Quotes
For now, whether you are young or whether you're young at heart, I do have one final ask of you as your president, the same thing I asked when you took a chance on me eight years ago. I am asking you to believe not in my ability to bring about change, but in yours.Barack Obama
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If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
Oskar Schindler -
The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
Rafael Palmeiro -
Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
Vikram Seth -
To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
Hans Hofmann -
Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.
Samuel Lover -
There are over a million people running around the United States that were born to parents just on Match.com alone, to say nothing of the other properties we run, so that's a million lives that our company just had a little to do with in bringing their parents together.
Sam Yagan
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I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
J. C. Watts -
My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.
Karen Bender -
If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.
Hal Sparks -
I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
R. L. Stine -
I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.
Yvonne Strahovski -
I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
A. Philip Randolph
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I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.
Pat Roberts -
Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.
Daniel Barenboim -
With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.
Adam Beach -
I'm quite British; I've got big, flat feet, and I can't wear heels. I've got very, very pale Celtic skin, so my legs are always a frightening blue color. So when you take out clothes that reveal your legs, shoes that have any kind of heel, no shop will actually take my money.
Caitlin Moran -
At first, Uniqlo was a casual chain on the back streets of Hiroshima. Then... we became a national brand in Japan. So, the next step is to become a global brand.
Tadashi Yanai
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If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
Charles Bukowski -
I got a bad migraine that lasted 3 years, and the pills I took made by fingers disappear.
David Bowie -
My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer wore. And who'd have thought I'd be the same size as Jennifer Lopez!
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
Madhur Bhandarkar -
How depressing, the Sleeper Service thought. That it should all come down to this; the person with the biggest stick prevails.
Iain Banks -
For now, whether you are young or whether you're young at heart, I do have one final ask of you as your president, the same thing I asked when you took a chance on me eight years ago. I am asking you to believe not in my ability to bring about change, but in yours.
Barack Obama