Barack Obama Quotes

But what I would say to my successor is that it is important not just to shoot but to aim. And it is important, in this seat, to make sure that you're making your best judgments based on data, intelligence, the information that's coming from your commanders and folks on the ground and you're not being swayed by politics.

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• Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.

  

  Earl Monroe
  • Game
  • Sports
  • Be Patient

• Being a club pro and all, a guy trying to keep up with golf's modern technology, I hadn't found much time for Internet dating, but then one day I knew I'd met the girl of my dreams when she replied to a comment I'd made on You-and-Me.com. She said, 'I love it when you talk equipment to me.'

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.

  

  Zachery Ty Bryan
  • People
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• I love so many styles of music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Love
  • I Love

• Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Internet
  • Tweet
  • Developments

• For about 175,000 people, Chiranjeevi Blood Bank has supplied blood for free in times of emergency. This is because of the service-oriented attitude of Mega fans.

  

  Ram Charan
  • People
  • Free
  • Service

• I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Different
  • Song
  • Better

• Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Know
  • Sometimes
  • Fabulous

• I am healthy and happy.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Happy
  • Healthy

• When I realised that I had feelings for men as well as women, at first I was worried and frightened, and there was a certain amount of 'Who am I? Am I a criminal?' and so on. It took me a long time to come to terms with myself. Those were painful years - painful then and painful to look back on.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Interesting
  • Present
  • Which

• The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Popular
  • Seems
  • Celebration

• My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Start

• Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Believe
  • Influence
  • Legends

• If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • You
  • Wife
  • Honey

• If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • People
  • Want
  • Stop

• I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Like
  • Take
  • Sensitive

• I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Song
  • Language
  • German

• The worship of Adonis is united with that of Christ.

  

  Claude Debussy

• I actually spent a lot of time reading about how professional managers work. And how people build bridges.

  

  Barry Barish
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.

  

  Anushka Sharma
  • Important
  • Relationship
  • Compassion

• People tend to treat people with disabilities sort of like they're aliens from another planet. It doesn't come from a bad place; it comes from a place of, 'I have no idea what this disability entails, and I don't want to offend anyone or make them feel awful.'

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Bad
  • Want

• My mom used to model when she was younger, before she went to law school, and I think she thought it was pretty cool. I think my parents saw that acting ultimately made me happy, even though it was a rough ride for a little bit.

  

  Alexandra Daddario
  • School
  • She
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• But what I would say to my successor is that it is important not just to shoot but to aim. And it is important, in this seat, to make sure that you're making your best judgments based on data, intelligence, the information that's coming from your commanders and folks on the ground and you're not being swayed by politics.

  

  Barack Obama
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