Barack Obama Quotes

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all - the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

Barack Obama

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• There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • House
  • Parents
  • Funny

• I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Own
  • Price
  • My Own

• Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • World
  • Important
  • Spiritual

• The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Business
  • Failure

• Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Service
  • Intelligent
  • Choice

• There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.

  

  Sally Yates
  • Justice
  • Broken
  • Laws

• We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Exist
  • Defeat
  • Possibilities

• I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Life
  • Done
  • Past

• I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Man

• And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Time
  • Wanted
  • East

• I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'

  

  Zendaya
  • Remember
  • Want
  • Like

• Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.

  

  Val Guest
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Bad

• I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Money
  • Free
  • Model

• I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Great
  • Write
  • Songs

• I am a contradiction myself. I'm always looking for something that scares me because when I'm not scared, I'm not stimulated.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Contradiction
  • Scares
  • Stimulated

• Home is where your rump rests.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Home
  • Where
  • Your

• Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Yourself
  • Try
  • Be Yourself

• Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Years
  • Order
  • Stock

• Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing.

  

  Phil Lesh Grateful Dead
  • Different
  • Band
  • Player

• Cars and cameras are the two things I let myself be materialistic about. I don't care about other stuff.

  

  Louis C. K.

• The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • People
  • Employed
  • Rewarded

• Employers need to recognize that the world has changed and there are people who would like to help them provide solution in ways that are new, modern and that add value to companies.

  

  Andy Stern
  • People
  • World
  • Help

• What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all - the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe