Barack Obama Quotes

As the Holy Koran tells us: 'Be conscious of God and speak always the truth.' That is what I will try to do today - to speak the truth as best I can, humbled by the task before us, and firm in my belief that the interests we share as human beings are far more powerful than the forces that drive us apart.

Barack Obama

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• I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Good
  • Long
  • Value

• Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Character
  • Girl

• All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Risk
  • Feel
  • Audience

• As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Remember
  • Together
  • Dad

• It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• I wouldn't say no to becoming a Bond girl. Making it in Hollywood has been my dream ever since I was little, watching Marilyn Monroe movies. To star in a Bond movie would be bliss on a stick.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • Movie
  • Dream
  • Girl

• The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.

  

  Jack Huston
  • Movie
  • Man
  • Stars

• In this business, it's important to constantly do things that you don't know how to do. I love touring and making records, but I've learned how to do that, so sometimes you just have to dive in and try it.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Important
  • Business
  • Know

• One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Money

• I generally have a brand of brief on every day.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Brand

• There is so much to be gained from investing more time in what we eat. Buying fresh ingredients means knowing where your food comes from and what's in it.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Food
  • Knowing

• The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Walking
  • Streets
  • Nuts

• I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Movie
  • Read
  • Maybe

• It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Wish
  • Enough
  • Just

• As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Woman
  • Young
  • Name

• I think it's funny because on 'Glee Project,' there's that added pressure, but with 'Glee,' there's no element of competition. No one's trying to dance better than anyone. But there's that added pressure of, 'So many people are going to watch 'Glee' this week. If I don't nail this dance, I look like an idiot.'

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • People
  • Trying
  • Funny

• I appreciate the change associated with people's growth, but I don't like the changes in our lives. I came to Mumbai in 1945, so imagine my acceptance of the massive changes around. I have witnessed every kind of revolution.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • People
  • Change
  • Growth

• When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Always
  • Hair
  • Kid

• What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• I encourage people to embrace whatever it is that makes them different. Not being like everybody, setting your own trends, being your own person, that’s what makes you cool.

  

  La La Anthony
  • People
  • Different
  • Cool

• You write about what you have access to, and I have been fortunate enough to have a front-row seat on the rich and powerful my entire life.

  

  Dominick Dunne
  • Life
  • Powerful

• We talk eloquently about our commitment to the principles of Christianity, and yet our lives are saturated with the practices of paganism. We proclaim our devotion to democracy, but we sadly practice the very opposite of the democratic creed.... This strange dichotomy, this agonizing gulf between the ought and the is, represents the tragic theme of man's earthly pilgrimage.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Democracy
  • Commitment
  • Christianity

• I grew up in a home and in a world in which you can do anything. We were all expected to go to college. My father was a doctor.

  

  David Alan Grier
  • Up
  • World
  • Home

• As the Holy Koran tells us: 'Be conscious of God and speak always the truth.' That is what I will try to do today - to speak the truth as best I can, humbled by the task before us, and firm in my belief that the interests we share as human beings are far more powerful than the forces that drive us apart.

  

  Barack Obama
  • God
  • Truth
  • Today