Barack Obama Quotes

In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity - it is a prerequisite.

Barack Obama

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• I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Good
  • Power
  • Hope

• I definitely had to do some soul searching, and there would be a lot of times where I would sit back and look at the Internet and say to myself, 'This is a way of being able to communicate with all my fans all over the world, other than just being in New York and only hearing the New York side of things.'

  

  Raekwon
  • World
  • Soul
  • Myself

• To be is to do.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Brainy

• It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Done
  • Perfect
  • Proud

• It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Work
  • Art
  • Distance

• In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Desire
  • Church
  • Better

• There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Feel
  • Moment
  • Reasons

• To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.

  

  Garrett Fort
  • Death
  • Man
  • Die

• I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Fun
  • Funny
  • Myself

• I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Die
  • Beginning
  • Hands

• The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Experience
  • Suffering
  • Perspective

• The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Best
  • Successful
  • Worst

• A good leader must be fair.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Good
  • Leader
  • Fair

• The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Up
  • Time
  • High

• My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Music
  • Me
  • Never

• I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • God
  • Help
  • Push

• If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Country
  • Prove
  • United

• It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Opportunity
  • Negative
  • Ridiculous

• If invited, you would go to this person's wedding and give them a spice rack, but you would secretly hope that their marriage ends in a bitter, public divorce.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Hope
  • Marriage
  • Divorce

• From 1994 to 1997, I did nothing. I slept and slept and slept. If I was awake, I had to deal with things, I had to do things. In order to avoid that, I would just stay in bed.

  

  Jonathan Knight

• I tend to believe, when you're in a relationship, if you don't fight, it's not a real relationship. You have to have arguments and tensions, otherwise I don't believe it. My mother always said, "If you don't fight, you can't have a marriage. You have to fight for each other. If you don't know how to fight, relationships tend not to last."

  

  Richard LaGravenese
  • Relationship
  • Fighting
  • Argument

• Sports movies are often very good at dramatizing the intersection of public and private realms: the body politic.

  

  David Shields
  • Good
  • Sports

• What kind of woman irons her husband's sheets? Even the clothes I wear, I just throw 'em in the dryer with some golf balls.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Husband
  • Golf

• In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity - it is a prerequisite.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Money
  • Opportunity