Barack Obama Quotes

I was always amused that people were either skeptical or surprised that I would choose a Hillary Clinton as a secretary of state. To my mind, having somebody smart, tough, capable with her own stature, who could travel around the world and command the stage, was a huge asset.

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• I was an expert horseman.

  

  Harry Carey, Jr.
  • Expert
  • Horseman

• If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Business
  • Man
  • Chance

• In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.

  

  Imelda May
  • Music
  • Family
  • College

• My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Time
  • Family
  • Father

• I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Great
  • God
  • Evil

• You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • You
  • Body
  • Force

• I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Life
  • May

• If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Man
  • Himself
  • Complain

• I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; it's like the end of the world.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.

  

  Tamala Jones
  • Love
  • Comedy
  • Silly

• By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Excellence
  • Contemplation

• I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something to fail at.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Good
  • Me
  • Comfortable

• It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • You
  • Say
  • Wear

• I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Needs
  • Values

• Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Children
  • Clothes
  • Carry

• The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Time
  • You
  • Greatest

• I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Think
  • Teach
  • Patience

• The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Fear
  • Hell
  • Too Much

• I am who I am. I'm going to speak my mind.

  

  Ken Buck
  • Mind

• I would warn my brethren and sisters to never flatter persons because of their ability; for they cannot bear it. Self is easily exalted, and in consequence, persons lose their balance.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • Balance

• When I was younger, I used to bite my nails so bad. I used to play sports; I played, like, every sport. I would be playing soccer, and I'd be in the middle of the field just zoned out, biting my nails, and I'd, like, miss the ball going past me.

  

  Kendall Jenner
  • Bad
  • Past
  • Sports

• I like to think that I know a lot of words, but I definitely don't know all of them.

  

  Elif Batuman
  • Words

• O, brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother;where pity dwells, the peace of God is there.

  

  John Greenleaf Whittier
  • God
  • Heart
  • Peace

• I was always amused that people were either skeptical or surprised that I would choose a Hillary Clinton as a secretary of state. To my mind, having somebody smart, tough, capable with her own stature, who could travel around the world and command the stage, was a huge asset.

  

  Barack Obama
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