Barack Obama Quotes
In late January 2016, as quoted in 'The Obama Doctrine' by Jeffrey Goldberg, in The Atlantic (April 2016)
Quotes to Explore
-
I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.
-
A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
-
Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.
-
My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.
-
Just know that as long as your family thinks you're amazing, then you really are amazing.
-
Most of my best games were when I felt crap - I could hardly move on the morning of the World Cup semi-final in 1990 - but there's a thing called adrenaline that gets you through.
-
One of the great joys in life is reading, yet it's the main thing people say they don't have time to do.
-
À quelle heure, s'il vous plaît?
-
Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.
-
To have won a place in his heart among all those he has mentored and created, itself is a distinction.
-
The Internet is the best thing that could have happened to China.
-
Fifteen years ago, I suffered a stroke, which caused me to lose my speech. Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back? I work with a speech therapist twice a week.
-
Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command.
-
A television job that's working is the best job in the world.
-
Part of the creative journey for me was not to come up the conventional route. I didn't go through drama school. I chose not to. I came from a very working-class area, a child of Nigerian immigrants.
-
I still like the physicality of papers.
-
I really love that idea of the essay as an investigation. That's all anyone's life is.
-
I went through a rebellious phase, and was super into doing crazy hair things. I did only wear black for my junior year of high school. I was one of those kids.
-
I never look at the size of the film when I'm looking for a part.
-
The longer I live and the more I read, the more certain I become that the real poems about spring aren't written on paper. They are written in the back pasture and the near meadow, and they are issued in a new revised edition every April.
-
April brings the primrose sweet, / Scatters daisies at our feet.
-
Parents and teachers alike are alarmed by this top-down approach to education that wrongly ties education money for states to the adoption of academic standards that do not fully reflect the values of South Carolina.
-
In late January 2016, as quoted in 'The Obama Doctrine' by Jeffrey Goldberg, in The Atlantic (April 2016)
