Barack Obama Quotes

Questions for President Obama: A Town Hall Special with Gwen Ifill, PBS NewsHour (1 June 2016)

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• I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be around. I don't know if he had such a sense of humor.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Thought
  • Humor
  • Tough

• Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Children
  • Education
  • College

• Working on 'Outlander' has been a delight, it really has. I had kind of forgotten what Scotland was like, and I'd turned into a bit of a Londoner.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Kind
  • Working
  • Forgotten

• The skills and productivity of American Workers, not to mention the taxes they pay, are the greatest economic resource our country has. To condemn large numbers of them to unemployment, to deprive the Treasury of their tax contributions and to force them to live on unemployment at public expense is the most expensive luxury any society ever chose to buy.

  

  Lane Kirkland
  • Live
  • Country
  • American

• When we fight we're going to fight fight, for real fight. He thinks he's the ninja, I'm the ninja- Ninja Gaiden, American ninja, real motherfucking ninja. This ninja martial artist right here-I started that shit.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Real
  • American

• This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: 'Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the Earth.'

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Earth
  • Lies
  • Intelligent

• You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Heart
  • She
  • Remember

• Sweet to me was not the voice of man, But the wind's voice was understood by me. The burdocks and the nettles fed my soul, But I loved the silver willow best of all.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Soul
  • Sweet
  • Wind

• Interviewer: If I gave you fifty dollars, right now, what would you do with it?David Byrne: I would get something to eat.

  

  David Byrne Talking Heads

• It's like 60 Minutes on acid.

  

  David Byrne Talking Heads

• I put out tapes, but I always kept saying, 'Why am I putting all this energy into these tapes?' I was like, 'I'd rather make just an album because I have a vision; I know how I want to do my records.' I always felt like an artist as well.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • Why
  • Energy
  • Vision

• I never think about rhythm versus melody; I've always just played to what's in my head.

  

  Les Claypool

• I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up, my dad had just got out of jail and he had a great record collection. He had - it was all - these were the songs. So I heard a lot of these songs, like, my whole life, so for me it was easy. I already knew what I was going to sing.

  

  Chris Isaak
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research.

  

  Beth Gutcheon
  • Book

• We are well aware from which countries and through which countries the terrorists are receiving support. In the immediate future I shall be calling upon the leaders of these states to put a stop to this kind of activity.

  

  Boris Yeltsin
  • Future
  • Support
  • Stop

• The mass incarceration going on in this country and with my people is crazy.

  

  Ty Dolla Sign
  • People
  • Country
  • Crazy

• I still like the physicality of papers.

  

  David Muir

• I'm just fascinated by visiting actual castles in the countryside.

  

  Lily Collins

• All writing is presumption, of course, since no one knows what it is like to be another human being.

  

  Cynthia Ozick
  • Writing

• A university teaches. What does it teach? It must obviously teach all the languages in which the great literatures which have been preserved were written - Hebrew, Arabic, Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, French, Italian, German, Scandinavian, and English.

  

  Charles William Eliot
  • Great
  • English
  • German

• I was born in Argentina, June 13, 1943. I brought up my parents very well, so they let me come to America to study at Princeton University.

  

  Emilio Ambasz
  • Up
  • America
  • Parents

• Cautionary tales were fantastic in the '70s.

  

  Alfonso Cuaron

• This going into Europe will not turn out to be the thrilling mutual exchange supposed. It is more like nine middle-aged couples with failing marriages meeting in a darkened bedroom in a Brussels hotel for a group grope.

  

  E. P. Thompson

• Questions for President Obama: A Town Hall Special with Gwen Ifill, PBS NewsHour (1 June 2016)

  

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