Barack Obama Quotes

I am somebody who usually writes out the rough draft in longhand. Then I type it into the computer, and that is where I do my editing. I find that if I write it on the computer, I go too quick. So I like getting that first draft out and then typing it in; you are less self-conscious about it.

Barack Obama

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• From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.

  

  Madeline Kahn
  • Live
  • Mind
  • May

• Everywhere in the world, we're aware that democracy has incredible flaws and that the word has been used, especially in the United States, to wage wars.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • World
  • Democracy
  • Flaws

• Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know that President Obama is absolutely the best president to lead our country in the right direction.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Country
  • America
  • Future

• There's a time that may come in an organization where leading by influence is not enough. When things are not going the way they need to go, there's a time when one has to step up... to set the organization back on the right direction.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Up
  • Time
  • May

• My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Single

• The BAFTAs give the British point of view, and the Oscars give the American point of view, but the truth is we're all working in an international industry.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Truth
  • American
  • Truth Is

• Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons; some of them dig into deep things that I've been going through - there's a joy that I think people feel from my music and, hopefully, from my performance because I am so in love with doing what I do.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • Music
  • Joy

• I managed to survive the worst things any entertainer could possibly go through.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Worst
  • Survive
  • Through

• It's head and heart. I like to feed both. I always wanted to be an actor. But the cultural-intellectual side of things has always excited me. I wouldn't want to let it go.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Heart
  • Want
  • Me

• We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Time
  • Fear
  • Lies

• You have to follow that next step.

  

  Laura Moser
  • You
  • Step
  • Follow

• When I was a kid, I wasn't looking at the small-budget films myself. I was looking at 'James Bond' and all the major films, so I still have that energy. I still love those films.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Energy
  • Kid
  • Films

• At times, I've referred to Christ's miracles, and have said, 'Well, Christ multiplied the fish and the loaves to feed the people. That is precisely what we want to do with the Revolution and socialism.'

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • Revolution
  • Socialism

• I lived a block and a half away from four cousins, and I had three siblings. The Jaeger home was a big, messy, happy family.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Family
  • Home
  • Happy

• I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Way
  • Day
  • Actor

• Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Win
  • Guilty
  • Will

• I'm sure people in the business have said: She's too old for that part. I don't hear about it because your agent protects you from those negative things.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • People
  • She
  • Business

• If you put me in the fairway at my average distance into a par 4, 175 to 180 yards, and you put another player in the rough 120 yards from the green, over time, I'm going to wear him out.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Time
  • Me
  • Player

• In the long arcade of the bus station footfalls come back like laughter. He marches darkly toward his darkly marching shape in the glass of the depot door. His fetch come up from life's other side like an autoscopic hallucination, Suttree and Antisuttree, hand reaching to the hand.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Life
  • Up
  • Long

• The great events of the world take place in the brain...

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Brain
  • Place

• There are so many ingredients that are approved for use. You can't be an expert on all of them.

  

  Fred DeLuca

• Most people think of 'Wuthering Heights' as romantic; it's really not about that at all.

  

  Kaya Scodelario
  • People
  • Romantic

• In any leadership, whenever you're facing a tough challenge, find ways to bring people together and get them to serve together.

  

  Eric Greitens
  • Challenge
  • Leadership
  • Serve

• I am somebody who usually writes out the rough draft in longhand. Then I type it into the computer, and that is where I do my editing. I find that if I write it on the computer, I go too quick. So I like getting that first draft out and then typing it in; you are less self-conscious about it.

  

  Barack Obama