Barack Obama Quotes

If, in [Federal Housing Administration] application, black folks were excluded from it, then you have to override that by going after those discriminatory practices.

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• When we step out in faith and use the talents He's given us, we show that we trust God, that we believe He will bless our actions and cause us to succeed.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Believe
  • Faith

• That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Music
  • Love
  • Dance

• As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Truth
  • Myself
  • Tell

• Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Writing
  • Soul
  • Learn

• You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Story

• I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Long
  • She
  • Lost

• The thing I love about vampires that I find so fascinating is that, unlike other sci-fi creations, they aren't monsters from the get-go, they're human beings first... and so what kind of human you are would dictate what kind of vampire you would be.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Kind
  • Human
  • Monsters

• I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Up
  • Family
  • Want

• We did a lot of high school productions. My first was 'Twelfth Night.' I played Viola. We did 'Much Ado About Nothing' and 'Taming of the Shrew,' and a lot of musicals: 'The Wiz,' 'Bye Bye Birdie,' 'Oliver.'

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • School
  • High
  • Night

• It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Men
  • You
  • Nice

• I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Father
  • Own
  • My Own

• There are people that bring artists to me to look at it, and it's a question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there's something they have that makes them different and commercial.

  

  Babyface
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Great
  • Understand
  • Flawed

• It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Love
  • Respect
  • Treat

• To put it bluntly, there isn't one economic theory that can single-handedly explain Singapore's success; its economy combines extreme features of capitalism and socialism. All theories are partial; reality is complex.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Success
  • Reality
  • Single

• I'm really just a normal person.

  

  Vanna White
  • Person
  • Just
  • Normal

• Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Way
  • Knowledge
  • Intuition

• It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Life
  • Nature

• Theater gives me that outlet of being a part of the process from beginning to end, while film is a little more compartmentalized and is more impulse-driven.

  

  Jason Ralph
  • Beginning

• When I got into the Beatles, I must have only been about six or seven but old enough to take notice. We used to have an old radiogram which, for readers of a certain age, was like a big cabinet thing with a record player inside it.

  

  Paul Weller Incognito
  • Age
  • Player

• I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.

  

  Peggy Noonan
  • Moving

• New Orleans is a place where people are deliberately undereducated so that they can be a labour class - the economy there is tourism, and one of the only outlets that black males have traditionally been allowed is to play jazz music, y'know?

  

  Christian Scott
  • People
  • Music
  • Black

• If, in [Federal Housing Administration] application, black folks were excluded from it, then you have to override that by going after those discriminatory practices.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Black
  • Practice
  • Administration