Barack Obama Quotes
We created a whole lot of millionaires to boot. Businesses did just fine. And you know there are plenty of patriotic, successful Americans all across the country -- I meet them every day -- who'd be willing to make this contribution again because they understand there is such a thing as the common good. They understand that we're in this thing together.
Quotes to Explore
-
I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
-
Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.
-
I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
-
I want to stop transforming and just start being.
-
My greatest regret is selling my company.
-
For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
-
When I was a kid, I wanted a Chanel bob and bangs. My mom said no. I went to the salon anyway, and they said, 'No way - we are not going to do that to your hair.' So I did it myself. Big mistake. Instead of my bangs going down straight, they were sticking up like a cat. It was horrible.
-
I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
-
I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.
-
In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
-
When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
-
I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
-
Families are families. We've all got them, more or less, and we all know what it's like to be bullied by another generation.
-
I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
-
The way you wield your power is about using it to afford you opportunities that you wouldn't otherwise have. So I'm very creatively ambitious, and I just hope people notice it; that's all I want.
-
Everyone has something that they desperately need that makes them feel good, that they don't want anything to get in the way of. Whether it's a man's golf game, whether it's a woman's cooking. I have a friend who has to clean. She's addicted to cleaning.
-
One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
-
Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
-
I take my hat off to working mums and especially single working mums. I honestly don't know how they do it.
-
While in Paris, I got into modeling - photographers would literally stop me on the street.
-
The administrative control of the government remains everywhere. You can't have a government within the country and not have control over everything that's happening in the country... Even in the Election Commission there is some extent of administrative control.
-
In order to get what you want, you must first decide what you want. Most people really foul up at this crucial first step because they simply can't see how it's possible to get what they want, so they don't even let themselves want it.
-
Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.
-
We created a whole lot of millionaires to boot. Businesses did just fine. And you know there are plenty of patriotic, successful Americans all across the country -- I meet them every day -- who'd be willing to make this contribution again because they understand there is such a thing as the common good. They understand that we're in this thing together.
