Barack Obama Quotes

A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it's been tested by recession and all manner of challenges - I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

Barack Obama

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• America
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• Challenges
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• It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.

  

  Nathan Kirsh
  • Real
  • Need
  • Busy

• One who neglects or disregards the existence of earth, air, fire, water and vegetation disregards his own existence which is entwined with them.

  

  Mahavira
  • Earth
  • Water
  • Air

• I'm too self-serious for a comedy.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Comedy
  • Serious
  • Too

• We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • People
  • American
  • Free

• Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Taken
  • Serious
  • Human

• The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Great
  • History
  • Understanding

• I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Love
  • Strong
  • Own

• I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Women
  • Think
  • Find

• How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.

  

  Parker Posey
  • World
  • Band
  • Rock

• My journey has been that of a character actor.

  

  Harry Carey, Jr.
  • Character
  • Journey
  • Actor

• It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.

  

  Cal Hubbard
  • Game
  • Team
  • Pressure

• If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Love
  • Love Yourself

• I'm not really a fan of healthy food - I love eating! But, of course, I do work out.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Work
  • Love
  • Food

• I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Treat

• On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Believe
  • School

• If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.

  

  Maimonides
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• I can never let the guy across from me be in better shape. I have to be the best-conditioned guy.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Never

• I've been a single parent for a long time. It reminds me of being a waitress. As you walk back to the kitchen, requests come at you from all sides. You're doing the job of two - you have to be highly organised.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Time
  • Long
  • Job

• The imagination is a dimension of nonlocal information

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Imagination
  • Information
  • Dimensions

• Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.

  

  Cheryl Crawford
  • Great
  • inspirational
  • Management

• My dad is too cute. Every morning, he sends me one motivational quote. I have a folder full of all his quotes.

  

  Alia Bhatt
  • Dad
  • Morning
  • Motivational

• Meditate. Breathe consciously. Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment. Make the connection.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Attention
  • Connection
  • Breathe

• A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it's been tested by recession and all manner of challenges - I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • America
  • Future