Barack Obama Quotes

There's something about these steps [in Oval Office] and thinking about everybody who's walked here and all the business that's been done here.

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• I'm cranky.

  

  Larry David
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• To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.

  

  Mainbocher
  • Woman
  • Thoughts
  • Well

• With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Mind
  • Myself
  • Old

• My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Myself
  • Idea
  • Original

• If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • You
  • Matter
  • Afraid

• The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Life
  • Human
  • Being Human

• I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Want
  • Ego

• The eyes of the world are fixed on the U.S. to see if we have the political courage and moral sense to solve our debt crisis.

  

  Dan Coats
  • World
  • Political
  • Eyes

• The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Know
  • Slow

• In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • World
  • Problem
  • Suffering

• Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.

  

  Barbara Ann Scott
  • Control
  • Discipline
  • Teach

• I fought well at 155, but I don't think I ever came close to my best at 155. I think I'll get to my best at 170 pounds.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Think
  • Best
  • Ever

• Fuseproject was founded in 1999, and the notion behind it, which is alive and kicking today, is fusing different disciplines. Our teams are absolutely incredible at their own discipline, but most importantly, they're incredible at partnering with each other.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Different
  • Today
  • Discipline

• I used to play hooky from school so I could watch cooking shows.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • School
  • Play
  • Cooking

• Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • King
  • Talking
  • Bias

• Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Good
  • Think
  • Parent

• I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Good
  • Percent
  • Pilot

• We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about.

  

  Margaret Spellings
  • Relationship
  • Goals
  • Achievement

• He supposed he was one of those unfortunates born with a great capacity for suffering.... He opened his eyes a moment and they were dark with fear, for only one race was run as yet and there might be many others.... Then his newborn courage came back to him and he accepted his suffering as the price he must pay for the gift of creation that was his. And suffering, he had discovered, could be the gateway to renewal, than which no more glorious experience can be man's on earth.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Suffering
  • Race
  • Discovered

• I'm a conservative. I believe in the idea of freedom and liberty, but more importantly, look at my voting background. I voted against bailing out Wall Street. I voted against, never voted for, a tax increase.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Wall

• At that moment I knew what the plebs were, much more clearly than when, years earlier, she had asked me. The plebs were us. The plebs were that fight for food and wine, that quarrel over who should be served first and better, that dirty floor on which the waiters clattered back and forth, those increasingly vulgar toasts. The plebs were my mother, who had drunk wine and now was leaning against my father’s shoulder, while he, serious, laughed, his mouth gaping, at the sexual allusions of the metal dealer. They were all laughing, even Lila, with the expression of one who has a role and will play it to the utmost.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Food
  • Fight
  • Role

• There's something about these steps [in Oval Office] and thinking about everybody who's walked here and all the business that's been done here.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Business