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

• There was no studio involved when we made 'Stargate.' It was financed through Le Studio Canal+ in France and, after the film was finished, it was sold to MGM. When the film was a success, MGM decided to do a television series based on the movie.

  

  Dean Devlin
  • Movie
  • Success

• Suffering. That was the key.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Suffering

• You will never, I think, fully conquer the play. Every night, you see this Everest before you. It's that two, three hours and the audience, and you'd better tell the truth.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • Truth
  • Night

• The killing of the horses a bullfight in Madrid, he visited in June 1910 by the bull is very horrible, much more so as they have no chance to escape and are ridden up to the bull to be butchered.. ..the entry of the bull into the ring however is very beautiful; his surprise and the first charges he makes are very pretty.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Beautiful

• I cannot keep a clock or a watch. They stop on me. Why won't time stay peacefully on my wrist? Is time not interested in me any more because I am dying?

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Time
  • Why
  • Stop

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

  

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