Barack Obama Quotes

Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security, and, make no mistake, it will impact how our military defends our country.

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• Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Life
  • Like
  • Winning

• I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Man
  • Sweet
  • Sorry

• Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Money
  • Fashion
  • Forget

• The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• It's just such an honor to say that I was in something by Steven Spielberg. I feel so blessed I got to meet such great people, and I got to go to a beautiful place, Vancouver, and I had a great time.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Life
  • Good
  • Home

• I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Hate
  • Always
  • Trials

• An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Man

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Year
  • Months
  • Spend

• I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Real
  • Personality

• Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Diva

• What we have really now is a one-state outcome in which Israel is the one and only state between the Jordan River and the sea. It can do whatever it wants virtually throughout the area. But that's not the kind of a state that's going to be a basis for peace and stability in the region.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Peace
  • Sea
  • River

• Something happens to a woman when she can't reproduce. I've not had to walk that path, but I can only imagine when your organs don't work and how that could make you feel.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Work
  • She
  • Woman

• I don't set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Up
  • Like
  • Feel

• You need to learn. You need to grow up. You need to step up and know the difference between what you can do and what you can't.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Up
  • Grow
  • Step

• I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Independence

• We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Strong
  • Fighting
  • Opinion

• I do play the guitar, and I can sing, but just enough to carry a tune.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • Play
  • Guitar
  • Carry

• As I detail in my new book: 'Hard Measures, How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives,' there are many myths surrounding the detention of a relatively small number of top terrorists at CIA-run 'black sites' from 2002 until they were sent to Guantanamo Bay in 2006.

  

  Jose Rodriguez
  • Book
  • American
  • Black

• 3,000 of my neighbors were murdered. My country was, utterly unprovoked, savagely attacked. I wish all those responsible for the atrocity of 9/11 to burn in Hell.

  

  Frank Miller
  • Country
  • Wish

• The vote has been costly. Prize it...understand what it means and what it can do for your country.

  

  Carrie Chapman Catt
  • Country
  • Mean
  • Vote

• Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.

  

  Willa Cather
  • World
  • Artist
  • Creativity

• Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security, and, make no mistake, it will impact how our military defends our country.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
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