Barack Obama Quotes

Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes.

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• When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.

  

  Zachary Gordon
  • People
  • Up
  • Mom

• I've never been a partier.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Never
  • Been

• I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • You
  • Hate
  • Know

• There's no problem with fans and bands. There's a problem with the economics of the outside disruption of the industry.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Problem
  • Fans
  • Economics

• I believe in aging gracefully.

  

  Tatjana Patitz
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Aging

• If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Life
  • Man
  • Better

• When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • World
  • Work
  • Trying

• My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Political
  • Spiritual
  • Islam

• Actors, after all, dream.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Dream
  • After

• I do a lot of TV stuff, but I also turn a lot down - it's got to be an adventure.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Adventure
  • Down
  • Turn

• We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Human
  • Birth
  • Human Beings

• Senator Wyden continues to be the Senate's truest champion of an open Internet.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Internet
  • Champion
  • Senate

• It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • You
  • Simple
  • Faithful

• Evil report carries further than any applause.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Evil
  • Applause
  • Carries

• Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself. I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette, but if I do, then within that, I can be creative.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Long
  • Yourself
  • Creative

• The Catholic Church is one of the oldest, largest and richest institutions on earth, with a following 1.2 billion strong, and change does not come naturally.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Earth
  • Strong
  • Change

• We can win respect in the world only if we are strong internally and can banish poverty and unemployment from our country.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • World
  • Country
  • Strong

• I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes. With its life, it brought me the idealizations of life, all the idealizations which give life a double, which lead life toward it summits, which make the dreamer too live by splitting...

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Life
  • Live
  • Dream

• In 1995, I had been chosen to make a short presentation about the state of the TV business at a company retreat in Santa Barbara. At the time, I felt we were not real competitors in network television. The studio wasn't prolific; we didn't have much of a brand.

  

  Dana Walden
  • Time
  • Real
  • Business

• Oftentimes, if you're talking to a seasoned interviewer who asks you a question, they may do a follow-up if they didn't quite get it. It's rare that they'll do a third or fourth or fifth or sixth follow-up, because there's an implicit, agreed-upon decorum that they move on. Kids don't necessarily move on if they don't get it.

  

  Brian Greene
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  • May
  • Kids

• Great entrepreneurs are often great listeners and they can spot patterns and pick up on small details in customer stories.

  

  Alexander Osterwalder
  • Up
  • Great
  • Small

• Free trade was once a Republican conviction.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • Free

• Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes.

  

  Barack Obama
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