Barack Obama Quotes

It is time to leave behind the divisive battles of the past. It is time to move forward as one nation.

Barack Obama

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• My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.

  

  Saffron Aldridge
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Morning

• In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • World
  • Meat

• Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.

  

  Barnabe Barnes
  • Sweet
  • Where
  • Content

• I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Different
  • Character
  • Myself

• Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Think
  • Society
  • Black

• I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Film
  • Interested
  • Student

• I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Simple
  • Ocean
  • Beach

• I have more friends in New York than Paris.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Friends
  • New
  • New York

• I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.

  

  Iman
  • Girl
  • Thought
  • Treat

• For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Same
  • Circumstances

• Here at home, President Obama early on made the connection between growth and economic opportunity for women. In the depths of our crisis in 2009, one of the first laws the president signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He established an Equal Pay Task Force led by Valerie Jarrett to help women get paid what they earn.

  

  Lael Brainard
  • Women
  • Home
  • Help

• When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Book
  • Bad
  • Best

• I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Experience
  • Magic
  • Movies

• These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • Power
  • Leader

• I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Life
  • Music
  • Live

• I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Culture
  • Stop

• Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • Loving
  • Preaching

• A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

  

  Ouida
  • Hand
  • Story
  • Run

• For much of my life, the Navy was the only world I knew. It is still the world I know best and love most.

  

  John McCain
  • Life
  • World

• Seeing Dre looking all cut up and in shape made me want to get myself together and look right, too.

  

  Warren G
  • Want
  • Look
  • Right

• Well, what's interesting, I try not to think about the radio when I'm writing a song. I want people to love the song, and that means it might not be exactly thinking about the radio, but it's thinking about your audience and saying, 'I want people to like this song after it's done.'

  

  John Roger Stephens
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• My first novel, 'Housekeeping,' was accepted by the first agent who read it, and bought by the first editor who read it. In general, my experience with publication has been gentle and gratifying.

  

  Marilynne Robinson
  • Experience

• My dad helped me understand songwriting because of him playing Babyface a lot. I don't even know if my dad realized that him just being him, him just living his life, loving what he loved, poured more into me than anybody ever would know.

  

  BJ the Chicago Kid
  • Life
  • Dad

• It is time to leave behind the divisive battles of the past. It is time to move forward as one nation.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Past
  • Moving