Barack Obama Quotes
If American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain when I'm in the White House, I'll put on a comfortable pair of shoes myself. I'll walk on that picket line with you as President of the United States of America, because workers deserve to know that somebody is standing in their corner.
Quotes to Explore
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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I don't think what I look like is relevant.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.
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I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.
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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
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I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
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If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.
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Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.
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When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend.
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I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Basically, I get paid to be crazy. I get paid to believe I'm someone else, live in a completely false reality, and believe it's real. And that's a little scary. And I do it to the best of my ability. But it's kind of like swimming out to sea. You have to leave enough energy to swim back, and sometimes you get scared you swam too far.
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Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
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Maybe there is something I got from it. Maybe you also start to be clear on certain things.
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There is something about this generation living now, that we don't accept death.
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Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves.
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I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs.
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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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If American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain when I'm in the White House, I'll put on a comfortable pair of shoes myself. I'll walk on that picket line with you as President of the United States of America, because workers deserve to know that somebody is standing in their corner.
