Barack Obama Quotes

I'm a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I'd have to think long and hard before I let him play football.

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• It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• I like that in 'Caprica' the virtual world is a new thing. The parents didn't have that growing up. And it's the same thing about the Internet and all the current technology. It didn't exist like it does now for our parents' generation. Kids aren't relating to their parents anymore, and I just find that so honest.

  

  Magda Apanowicz
  • Up
  • World
  • Kids

• I think I was given a gift to play golf and to be mentally strong.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Strong
  • Golf
  • Gift

• I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Think
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  • Down

• The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.

  

  Adam Kluger
  • Music
  • Back
  • Aggressive

• But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Trying
  • Know
  • Destroy

• Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.

  

  Pancho Villa
  • Like
  • End
  • Said

• North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Poverty
  • Slavery
  • Rights

• The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • May
  • Environment
  • Year

• If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.

  

  Larry Page
  • Time
  • Work
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• Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Career
  • Wish

• Many are called but few get up.

  

  Oliver Herford
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• I'd seen 'Punky Brewster,' I'd seen 'Webster,' I saw 'Annie,' and it was time to either be an orphan or an actress.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
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  • Actress
  • saw

• I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself.

  

  Dani Shapiro
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  • Purpose

• If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Know
  • Harmony

• It's often out of my own insecurity. If I'm picky, it's for that reason. I want to be able to bring my best to the table. So if I'm not connecting to something, then I'm not gonna hold up my end of the bargain, and that's really embarrassing.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Up
  • Best
  • End

• The best thing you can do for your body is sleep. It's simple. Cater to your body as much as to your mind. Your body, after all, houses your mind. You have to pay attention to your physicality as much as your mentality.

  

  Kajol
  • Mind
  • Attention
  • Simple

• When they see those fourteen lights, they're looking at a miracle. And deep down, they feel that whatever's going to happen, there will be someone there to help them. And that fills them with hope.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Help
  • Hope
  • Deep

• Growing up South African, I was comparatively in a world of privilege, especially being the youngest and being figuratively wrapped up in cotton wool by the rest of the family.

  

  Jodi Balfour
  • Up
  • World
  • Family

• A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Never
  • Roots
  • Filmmaker

• No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Soul
  • Joy

• Cornwall bears a certain resemblance to Italy: each is like a leg or boot, but Italy stands a-tiptoe to the south, whereas Cornwall is thrust out to the west. But, whereas Italy is kicking Sicily as a football, Cornwall has but the shattered group of the Scilly Isles at its toe.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
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  • Group
  • Leg

• More or less, we're all afflicted with the psychology of the voyeur. Not in a strictly clinical or criminal sense, but in our whole physical and emotional stance before the world. Whenever we seek to break this spell of passivity, our actions are cruel and awkward and generally obscene, like an invalid who has forgotten to walk.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • World
  • Emotional
  • Psychology

• I'm a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I'd have to think long and hard before I let him play football.

  

  Barack Obama
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