Barack Obama Quotes

I think we would have made a lot more mistakes and would have accomplished a lot less had we not been grounded in some basic truths.

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• If anyone has followed my career, they know that there's been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Career
  • Day
  • Best

• Anyone who knows me knows what I'm about - how much I'm into empowerment, equal rights and everyone just loving themselves.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Me
  • Equal
  • Empowerment

• The difference between an actor and a star is the budget and the overall presentation of a film.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Star
  • Budget
  • Presentation

• You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Work
  • Me
  • Myself

• Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Life
  • Good
  • Change

• I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Good
  • Family
  • Happy

• I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Film
  • Directors
  • Admires

• My favorite animal is steak.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Food
  • Animal
  • Steak

• What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Romantic

• It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Know
  • Best
  • Answer

• Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • English
  • Baseball
  • Italian

• I started my career with 'Refugee' in Bhuj. Now, it has become a full-fledged city.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Career
  • City
  • Now

• I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Music
  • More
  • Planet

• Fashion should be playful.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Fashion
  • Should
  • Playful

• As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Good
  • American
  • Taken

• How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Life
  • Man
  • Strange

• A lot of girls think they have to choose between being the smart geeky type or the beautiful bimbo.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Think
  • Beautiful
  • Smart

• If you want to go east, don't go west.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Want
  • You
  • Wisdom

• That's what fashion is supposed to do to you, it's supposed to make you happy, make you excited, make you feel good.

  

  Zendaya
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Fashion

• Society never progresses because the majority one day wakes up and says, "Let's do things differently." The majority didn't wake up and say, "Oh, let's just free the slaves." Society always progressed because a relatively small group of people usually considered outrageous radicals by the status quo of their time had a better idea and articulated another way. That's simply how evolution works; it's the mutation. The member of the species who does things differently - that points the way to the future because they're better adapted for survival.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Given belief in God, a good digestion and a mind in working order life's still a thing to be grateful for.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Working
  • Grateful
  • Believe In God

• When I interviewed John McCain in 2000 about whether he had taken medication for his anger, I remember thinking, 'Let's see how this is going to work.'

  

  John Dickerson
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• I like to razz the Trekkies a little bit. Who doesn't? It's trainspotting, isn't it? But they are very well-meaning, actually. I've done a couple of Star Trek conventions, and they've only been really welcoming.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Done
  • Star
  • Couple

• I think we would have made a lot more mistakes and would have accomplished a lot less had we not been grounded in some basic truths.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Mistake
  • Made