Barack Obama Quotes

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• I'm still learning my craft.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Learning
  • Still
  • Craft

• When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Life
  • Child
  • My Life

• I've been very excited to have children for a long time. It definitely added an interesting twist to the night we screened 'Lyle' at Outfest, and I got up to do the Q&A, and I had this huge belly no one was expecting. It creeped everybody out in the best way.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Perfectionist
  • Nancy Reagan

• If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Me
  • Football
  • Laugh

• So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Experience
  • Age
  • Success

• I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it when I'm clean-shaven. If you see me with a clean face, then you know I'm in the kissing mode!

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Hate
  • Wife
  • Daughter

• I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Experience
  • Human
  • Psychology

• At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • May
  • Happy

• I say 'no' to nothing, 'yes' to moderation. That's how I approach everything. No matter if it's candy or foie gras. When you have the real deal, you're satisfied with that one bite. I say go full throttle and call it a day.

  

  Carla Hall
  • Real
  • You
  • Day

• If you think about the market that we're in, and more broadly just the enterprise software market, the kind of transition that's happening right now from legacy systems to the cloud is literally, by definition, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Opportunity
  • Legacy
  • Cloud

• It's bad enough being conned into singing an anti-war message by John Lennon when you think you're just wishing everyone a merry Christmas.

  

  Ian Watson
  • War
  • Bad
  • Think

• When we do acquisitions, we decide what we want. We decide what fills a hole. And if the price is too high, our alternative is the $5 billion we spend on R&D every year. We're not well-known for overpaying, because at Oracle we always have an alternative.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • High
  • Want
  • Always

• Humans can make friends easily if they are open to it and are interested in other people.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Friends
  • Open

• Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Done
  • Bad
  • Day

• People ask me 'Why you want to do another magazine - 10 years at 'Vogue,' a great magazine? Why do you want to make a new one? It's so difficult and there's already so many.' I wanted to do something new, bring a new vision.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Great
  • Why

• There is always room at the top - after the investigation.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Always
  • Room
  • Investigation

• People who are constantly looking for the opportunity to do something new are also people who are not going to be helped by having job titles - job titles create expectations of specialization and focus which don't map really well to creating the best possible experience for your customers.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Experience
  • Job

• Grace is what matters in anything - especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. That's a quality that I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching out for the gun too quickly. It keeps you from destroying things too foolishly. It sort of keeps you alive.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • Life
  • Death
  • Pain

• To create a harmonious inner existence is a positive act with far-reaching effects, and not an act of isolation. To desire peace strongly is to help achieve it.

  

  Jane Roberts
  • Help
  • Peace
  • Desire

• We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.

  

  Jose Ortega y Gasset
  • Time
  • Live

• If you aren't willing to face your demons-if you can't find the courage to take on your fear and hurt and anger-you might as well wrap them up with a bow and give them to your children. Because they will be carrying the same thing...unless you are willing to do the work

  

  R.A. Dickey
  • Up
  • Work
  • Children

• People were really staying away from me. And that's kind of when I split up with all my best friends at school - they were going, "Something's happened to her, she's totally weird" - and found my new friends, who were Beatles fans.

  

  Cassandra Peterson
  • School
  • Friends
  • New

• If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Gun