Barack Obama Quotes
My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.
-
If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.
-
Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
-
You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
-
Even Apple, notorious for keeping a tight grip on its products, allows fierce competitors like Google, Amazon, Spotify, and Microsoft to offer their apps on its phones and tablets.
-
In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.
-
I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
-
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
-
And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
-
As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.
-
People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.
-
Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
-
You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
-
Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
-
I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.
-
The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.
-
The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars in the desert, and ex-pats - German, Swiss, Canadian, American - would play classical music that filled the whole canyon.
-
A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.
-
Comedians are always hitting the topical notes that are on everybody's minds.
-
In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.
-
I'll get up at 5 or 6. I try to catch up on sleep on the weekends, so I'll try to get seven hours of sleep. During the week, my ideal is to go to bed at 9 and wake up six hours later.
-
I said, to the people of the Philippines whence I came, I shall return. Tonight, I repeat those words: I shall return!
-
I play all my own instruments. I write my own material. And I do not lip-synch. I sing live.
-
My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.
