Barack Obama Quotes

Know that America is a friend of each nation and every man, woman, and child who seeks a future of peace and dignity...[For] we are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth.

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• It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Mean
  • Better
  • Express

• I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.

  

  Otto Dix
  • Life
  • Experience
  • War

• I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Life
  • Time
  • Car

• There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • No Fear

• I'm too self-serious for a comedy.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Comedy
  • Serious
  • Too

• There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Pain
  • Gratitude
  • Revenge

• Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Taken
  • Serious
  • Human

• For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Music
  • Important
  • Marriage

• Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Path
  • Choose
  • Privilege

• Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Attitude
  • Excellence
  • Skill

• However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • World
  • War
  • Philosophy

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people.

  

  Jack Kelley
  • Person
  • Profession
  • Ambitious

• There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Write
  • Nothing
  • Really

• Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Books

• You won't see me at a microphone singing and tapping my foot. I spend a lot of money on sets, costumes and sound. I believe people deserve a show. I'm a singer, musician, dancer. I work hard, and I'm soaking wet when I come off.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Comedy
  • Theatre
  • Doing

• Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Want
  • Me
  • Admit

• September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Up
  • Past
  • Hate

• Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Sweet

• In a new friend we start life anew, for we create a new edition of ourselves and so become,for the time being, a new creature.

  

  D.E. Stevenson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Friend

• I just feel like I have when I started making a lot of money, I started spreading it out to people. Mickelson, the whole deal, the over-tip: if I see a guy that looks like he needs a hand out or something, I'll pull something out and give him something.

  

  Lee Trevino
  • People
  • Money
  • Guy

• Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Madness
  • Passions
  • Unguided

• Know that America is a friend of each nation and every man, woman, and child who seeks a future of peace and dignity...[For] we are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Future
  • Earth