Barack Obama Quotes

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• I depend on good editors and a good director.

  

  Indira Varma
  • Good
  • Depend
  • Editors

• Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Character
  • You
  • View

• I think about terrorism in terms of popcorn. You can't tell which kernels are popcorn and which are not, but you assume you'll always have some kernels that are going to pop.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Think
  • You
  • Terrorism

• Kids are disorganized.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Kids
  • Disorganized

• I don't totally believe that all of the politicians see a problem with the gap between the scores of black children and other groups. I believe that many politicians think this has been the way it has always been, so what's the problem?

  

  Barry Williams
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Black

• I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the 'Hindustan Times.'

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Reading
  • Inspiration
  • Human

• I was home alone watching George Bush speak on television. So it was just really the two of us. And as I listened to him, I realized, that one of us... was nuts! And for the first time ever, I went 'Wow, it's not me!'

  

  Lewis Black
  • Time
  • Home
  • Alone

• Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations... eating with friends, the service, the ambience.

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • Life
  • Great
  • Friends

• Our focus is to get citizen astronauts to experience the 'overview effect,' return to Earth, and then impact their communities.

  

  Dylan Taylor
  • Experience
  • Earth
  • Focus

• Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

  

  Francis Bacon

• When a black man is stopped by a cop for no apparent reason, that is covert racism. When a black woman shops in a fancy store and is followed by security guards, that is covert racism. It is more subtle than 1960s racism, but it is still racism.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • Black
  • Racism

• I've never made plans for more than a day ahead.

  

  Mary MacLane

• Music is escapism, it's entertainment.

  

  Andy Taylor Duran Duran
  • Music

• My aunts and uncles were like, 'You've got such a great voice - why don't you try out for 'American Idol?'' I'd say, 'Because I'm a songwriter, not a puppet.' Even if I won and became really successful off a show like that, I'd be miserable.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Great
  • Why
  • American

• I sat in a theater when I was 11 years old and watched 'The Empire Strikes Back' from 10 in the morning until 10 at night the day it came out.

  

  Joe Russo
  • Night
  • Morning

• I did have reconstructive plastic surgery and a tummy tuck. And from hip to hip, there's a very big scar. It looks better than it did... So I say, if you don't like that skin, have it removed. This is my advice: if you're gonna do it - just go for it.

  

  Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips
  • Advice

• I was impressed by the capability and talent and intellect of our troops on the ground. These kids are really impressive.

  

  Pete Gallego
  • Kids

• Ballet.something pure in this crazy world

  

  Misty Copeland
  • World
  • Crazy
  • Pure

• I find it hard to argue with Reagan's old slogan: Trust, but verify.

  

  David Hoffman
  • Trust
  • Hard
  • Arguing

• The Bolshevik slogans and ideas on the whole have been confirmed by history; but concretely things have worked out differently; they are more original, more peculiar, more varied than anyone could have expected.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Ideas
  • Expected
  • Peculiar

• There is an art in taking the whiplash of suffering full in the face, an art you must learn. Let each single attack exhaust itself; pain always makes single attacks, so that its bite may be more intense, more concentrated. And you, while its fangs are implanted and injecting their venom at one spot, do not forget to offer it another place where it can bite you, and so relieve the pain of the first.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Art
  • Suffering
  • Learn

• We cannot define anything precisely. If we attempt to, we get into the paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers, who sit opposite each other, one saying to the other, "You don't know what you are talking about!" The second one says, "What do you mean by know? What do you mean by talking? What do you mean by you?"

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Mean
  • Talking
  • Philosopher

• It's easier to make negative attacks and simplistic slogans in social media than it is to communicate complex policies.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Complex
  • Attacks
  • Slogans