Barack Obama Quotes

What we've seen at least since 1979 is Iran making constant, calculated decisions that allow it to preserve the regime, to expand their influence where they can, to be opportunistic, to create what they view as hedges against potential Israeli attack in the form of Hezbollah and other proxies in the region.

Barack Obama

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• Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.

  

  Barry McCaffrey
  • Peace
  • Problem
  • Process

• I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • College
  • Years
  • New York

• I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Sweet

• I was the first businessman to say, 'You should give tax benefit to only small companies. You should say your profits are exempt to a limit of Rs. 50 crore or so, but beyond that, you should pay taxes.' I have been arguing with successive finance ministers on this.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Small
  • Taxes
  • Finance

• As a child, I thought, 'Once I am a grown-up, there will be no more fear, no more worries,' and it turns out that's not true.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Up
  • True
  • Fear

• I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Myself
  • Hell
  • Being Myself

• A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.

  

  Carl T. Rowan
  • Without
  • Group
  • Fools

• I could type in a closet and be fine. It's just a matter of cocooning myself. Just me and the story.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Story

• Hillary Clinton wants to leave behind No Child Left Behind.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Child
  • Leave
  • Behind

• I didn't like the idea of changing myself for the industry. I felt to have my teeth straightened and bleached and to starve myself to change my body was not respecting who I was.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Change
  • Myself
  • Body

• Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • May
  • Business

• One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working with an actor who the audience already has a relationship with actually helps you in a film like this.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • People
  • Know
  • Relationship

• I fantasised about becoming an author and wrote my first book at 18 - an introspective novel set in the 1920s.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Book
  • First
  • Author

• I figured, 'Why not go into entertainment?' I love entertaining people. I always loved being extra loud.

  

  Becky G
  • People
  • Loved
  • Loud

• I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix's drummer when I was in high school, but I graduated in 1970, the year he died.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • School
  • High
  • Year

• I discovered that men were just like everyone else, really. They liked you if you were good-tempered and easy to talk to. And being a big girl meant other females trusted you more and confided in you.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Good
  • Men
  • Girl

• The magic of music is so strong, getting stronger, it should break any shackle of another art.

  

  E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • Music
  • Art
  • Strong

• It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Social
  • Class
  • Crush

• The point always is to be writing something - it leads to more writing.

  

  Susanna Moore
  • Writing
  • Point
  • Leads

• There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and everybody said, 'Ooh, hey, I can do that.' There's only a few people that have flown in early 1908. In four years, 39 countries had hundreds of airplanes, thousands of pilots.

  

  Burt Rutan
  • People
  • Time
  • Period

• You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Life
  • Work
  • Important

• Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.

  

  Kris Kristofferson
  • Up
  • Power
  • Wisdom

• What we've seen at least since 1979 is Iran making constant, calculated decisions that allow it to preserve the regime, to expand their influence where they can, to be opportunistic, to create what they view as hedges against potential Israeli attack in the form of Hezbollah and other proxies in the region.

  

  Barack Obama