Barack Obama Quotes

Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Abe of Japan at Hiroshima Peace Memorial at Hiroshima Peace Memorial in Hiroshima, Japan (May 27, 2016)

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• I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Good
  • Character
  • Age

• No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

  

  Beck
  • Artist
  • Drive
  • Bargain

• Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Attitude
  • Excellence
  • Skill

• He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • House
  • Crime
  • White

• I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Career
  • Myself
  • Poetry

• I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Hunger
  • Finished
  • Zombies

• When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

  

  Gary Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • Movie

• It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Couple
  • Difficult
  • Now

• That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he will not put more on me than I can bear. And so I always say, 'Lord, I trust you with me.' So I figure, anything that happens in my life, I must be able to bear it, or he wouldn't allow it to happen.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Life
  • God
  • Real

• On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • People
  • Up
  • Walk

• I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Art

• The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • World
  • Bored
  • Sight

• Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Believe
  • Marriage
  • Social

• I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Real
  • Truth

• When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Band

• From now back to the past, we can observe clearly that none of us is free.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Free
  • Past
  • Now

• You'll see a lot more blood in 'Saw' movies or something like that than you will in either of the 'Last House' movies. I kind of think it owes more to 'The Virgin Spring' which is the original source material, the Bergman movie.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Movie
  • Think
  • House

• Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • People
  • Trying
  • Play

• America’s commitment to Israel’s security is unshakeable. Our friendship with Israel is deep and enduring. And so we believe that any lasting peace must acknowledge the very real security concerns that Israel faces every single day.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Real
  • America

• Authors all have at least one thing in common, which is that when we finally get finished copies of our books, we get giddy as kindergartners. We touch them constantly, and build towers with them, and take pictures of our cats and dogs reading them.

  

  Jeff Giles
  • Reading

• I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers.

  

  Jack Dee
  • People
  • Think
  • Hate

• It's a real challenge because, at 6 and 7, these kids may not even know which side to line up on. It's hard for the guys to start from scratch. It's not a smaller version of the high school game. You can't assume anything at this level.

  

  David Hartman
  • Up
  • Real
  • School

• At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.

  

  Rafael Moneo
  • Time
  • Art
  • Logic

• Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Abe of Japan at Hiroshima Peace Memorial at Hiroshima Peace Memorial in Hiroshima, Japan (May 27, 2016)

  

  Barack Obama
  • May
  • Peace
  • Memorial