Barack Obama Quotes

Immigration is part of the reason why our economy is stronger and better positioned than most of our other competitors, is because we've got a younger population that's more dynamic when it comes to trade.

Barack Obama

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• I love Rag & Bone, Dior, and Valentino; I like feminine, sexy things. Dolce & Gabbana and Chanel, too.

  

  Ieva Laguna
  • Like
  • Things
  • Sexy

• At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.

  

  Garry Disher
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Award

• Never having alone time is real tough on people.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• After you get what you want you don't want it.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • Want
  • You
  • After

• I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Want
  • Shows
  • Mysterious

• I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Music
  • Like
  • Dance

• I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Beautiful
  • Clothes
  • Shock

• The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Time
  • Art
  • Age

• If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • Time
  • Good
  • Win

• I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another.

  

  Washed Out
  • Up
  • House
  • Technology

• My journey has been that of a character actor.

  

  Harry Carey, Jr.
  • Character
  • Journey
  • Actor

• Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Opinion
  • Popular
  • Diversity

• People have often asked me, do I want to be the next Oprah - there is no such thing. Oprah is Oprah, and she's still being Oprah if anybody hasn't noticed... what I bring to TV is myself... I really think there's space in daytime TV for a whole bunch of fun, some amazing music, and some heart.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Music
  • Heart

• My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Team
  • Language
  • Brother

• I don't agree with boarding school. It's not something that I would do with my children, but I think it's something that kind of exists in England in a traditional way, and you do form very close relationships with the girls you go to school with. But it is a strange thing to live in an environment which is solely female.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Live
  • Children
  • School

• Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Life
  • Perfect
  • Conscience

• My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Happy
  • Parents
  • Car

• Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Military

• Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Dark
  • Never
  • Influence

• It got so ridiculous that I was like, there's no way this is going to last.

  

  Philip J. Kaplan

• Sometimes I would buy two of the same thing just to give my friends.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Friends

• I used to actually work in a comic book stores in New York.

  

  Kevin Sussman
  • Work
  • Book

• You have to be able to carry a conversation. I think after the initial attraction kind of dies down. The lust dies down. There has to be the thing that engages you.

  

  Chris Pine
  • Lust

• Immigration is part of the reason why our economy is stronger and better positioned than most of our other competitors, is because we've got a younger population that's more dynamic when it comes to trade.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Why
  • Immigration
  • Stronger