Barack Obama Quotes

War, no matter what our intentions may be, brings suffering and tragedy.

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• There are over a million people running around the United States that were born to parents just on Match.com alone, to say nothing of the other properties we run, so that's a million lives that our company just had a little to do with in bringing their parents together.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • People
  • Together
  • Parents

• There comes a time when money doesn't matter.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Money
  • Matter

• People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Innocence
  • Entitled

• I got to write most of everything I said.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Said
  • Everything
  • Got

• A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.

  

  Man Ray
  • Needs
  • Him
  • Creator

• It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Music
  • Wisdom
  • Audience

• Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Death
  • Find
  • Maybe

• When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.

  

  Ice T
  • Life
  • Music
  • Friends

• Proust is a huge author for me.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Me
  • Author
  • Huge

• It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • World
  • Live
  • Example

• I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Science
  • Process
  • Discovery

• Critics should think about how the opening weekend audience might want to discover some surprises for themselves.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Think
  • Want
  • Weekend

• Do something because you really want to do it. If you're doing it just for the goal and don't enjoy the path, then I think you're cheating yourself.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Goal
  • Path
  • Cheating

• At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Important
  • Day
  • End

• In Chicago, they die for their teams.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Die
  • Chicago
  • Teams

• I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Hate
  • Religion
  • Easy

• Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.

  

  Randy Forbes
  • Important
  • America
  • Success

• I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Work
  • You
  • Sleep

• You cannot expect the guy who drove the car into the ditch to navigate it out of the ditch. You have to put a new driver in the seat. I'm not saying the new driver is going to be any better, but we need a new driver. Kerry is the only choice.

  

  John Mellencamp
  • Guy
  • Car

• He got Alice, the way we did, or maybe even more so than us. He made her more confident, funnier, smarter. He brought out all the things that were there already and let her be fully herself, so she seemed to shine with this inner light.

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • She
  • Light
  • Shine

• 'Mad Men' still lives in my life as the best job that I've ever had because I thought the character was genius. It was so well-written.

  

  Patrick Fischler
  • Life
  • Men
  • Character

• Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.

  

  Mehmet Oz
  • Humanity
  • Ocean

• God preserve us! If men knew what is done in secret, no one would be free from the interference of others.

  

  Saadi
  • God
  • Men
  • Done

• War, no matter what our intentions may be, brings suffering and tragedy.

  

  Barack Obama
  • May
  • War
  • Suffering