Barack Obama Quotes

Let me be absolutely clear: Iran is a grave threat.

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• My direction has never really changed, because I don't think that you can really work gimmicks in gospel music. With gospel music, there is this central theme that always comes around about the love of God, the love of Jesus and the power that you have through Jesus Christ. You don't need a gimmick when you have that.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Music
  • God
  • Love

• When I've produced a song, I try to record a vocal over it, and sometimes it becomes really hard. Sometimes I've already said a lot that I want to say within the production. The vocal is just adding to it, rather than it being a song.

  

  Sampha
  • Want
  • Song
  • Sometimes

• We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Song
  • Artist
  • Write

• When I learned to play music, I was listening to blues music. And all the blues music I liked was super simple and stripped down. And then all the hip hop I liked was super simple and stripped down and we always heard that connection.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Music
  • Simple
  • Listening

• In a story, you have to have a theme and an angle, you have to have a beginning, middle and an end. You have to have a defining moment and kick it to death. You gotta be able to recognize that, by the way. It probably takes experience.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Experience
  • Death
  • Beginning

• To be a veiled Muslim woman on screen is a very scary minefield for me.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Me
  • Woman
  • Scary

• I think what Hollywood has done for so long, is make movies for themselves.

  

  David Hunt
  • Long
  • Done

• For centuries, soup kitchens have been a way for local communities to offer a way of support, both nutritional and emotional to their less lucky neighbors.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Support
  • Emotional

• When I was about 6, my cousin was very active in a Filipino repertory company, doing musicals and plays. Her aunt was one of the founders of the company, and she told my mom that there were these auditions for 'The King and I,' and that they needed kids. I auditioned, got in and the love affair started from there and just kept going.

  

  Lea Salonga
  • She
  • Kids
  • Mom

• King Lear alone among these plays has a distinct double action. Besides this, it is impossible, I think, from the point of view of construction, to regard the hero as the leading figure.

  

  Andrew Coyle Bradley
  • Action
  • Alone
  • King

• You've got to have something in your life you don't sell to others.

  

  Pete Hamill
  • Life

• If I weren't fighting, I'd be in the business world.

  

  Chuck Liddell
  • World
  • Business
  • Fighting

• Of course I want the things I write to reflect well on me or anyone who might feel represented by me, but also, I'm not writing a guidebook on how to be or how my people should be seen. I'm telling very specific stories.

  

  Jenny Zhang
  • People
  • Writing

• Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.

  

  Bernard Williams
  • Life

• Honey, beside me, you look like Tony Randall!

  

  Jayne Mansfield

• Pete Moffat writes crime conspiracy thrillers so beautifully. He goes places other people wouldn't; he is fearless.

  

  Alistair Petrie
  • People
  • Fearless

• People who know me, recognize a definite difference in my poise and in my personality, because I've grown.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • People
  • Personality
  • Poise

• Many of us refuse to grow where we are put; consequently, we take root nowhere.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Refuse
  • Put
  • Root

• He got himself involved. It wasn't so much anything we did specifically ? we did really the same things we've been doing. He found ways to get his hands on the ball.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Hands
  • Ball
  • Specifically

• A little extra forgiveness never hurts," said Matt, quoting one of Celia's favorite sayings.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • Never
  • Forgiveness
  • Hurts

• That which we remember of our conduct is ignored by our closest neighbour; but that which we have forgotten having said, or even what we never said, will cause laughter even into the next world.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Remember
  • Laughter
  • Neighbour

• To read and to write. Some writers have to be told to write. They think their job is to meet agents and have experiences and they can just be rich and famous. Their job is to write. Some really don't realize that. And you can't write unless you read.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Job
  • Famous

• Let me be absolutely clear: Iran is a grave threat.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Threat
  • Iran
  • Be Clear