Barack Obama Quotes

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

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• Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Graduation

• How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Life
  • Help

• I've always been attracted to women who are assertive and have confidence - qualities older women possess. They've been on the Earth a little longer. They're more seasoned. They don't play games. They know what they want, and they're not afraid to tell you.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Women
  • Want
  • Earth

• Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • World
  • Character
  • Book

• I thought Beverly Hills was a gated community. I always drove around Beverly Hills because I thought that there's a guard that was going to stop me.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Community
  • Stop
  • Thought

• We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Him
  • Worth
  • Worth It

• I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Things
  • Influence
  • Keep

• There is no diplomacy like candor.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Like
  • Diplomacy
  • Candor

• I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Career
  • Stage
  • Films

• I usually have eight to 10 meetings a day and travel 150 days a year..._It sounds crazy, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Day
  • Crazy
  • Travel

• At key crossroads in his life, Vernon Davis has continued to make a conscious choice to grow as a person and player. His determination through adversity since his childhood days is commendable.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Life
  • Player
  • Childhood

• Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn't be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Good
  • Short

• What counts isn't the frame, it's what you put in it.

  

  Otto Preminger
  • You
  • Counts
  • Frame

• 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

• I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Man
  • Girl
  • Door

• I pick my actors primarily based on my gut-feel. They could be rank newcomers or established stars, but if I feel they'll do justice to my characters, they are on. I think Bollywood is now looking towards Kollywood for new faces, and, to my mind, Suriya will be a very successful crossover star because he's very versatile.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Mind
  • Justice
  • Star

• 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

• I guess people feel like they kind of know me. The game developer me, or the Twitter persona, that's Notch. It's a censored version. The real me is Markus.

  

  Markus Persson
  • People
  • Real
  • Game

• Hank's the most amazing person on the planet, and if it's not him, there's no one else I want to be married to.

  

  Kendra Wilkinson
  • Amazing

• So, go talk to flowers about bulls and such," Aphrodite said. "I'll go talk to flowers," Stevie Rae said.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Flower
  • Bulls
  • Aphrodite

• Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad.

  

  Amber Valletta
  • Good
  • Art
  • Bad

• I have friends who are Caucasian who have pitched ideas for a Chinese-American show, and there is great resistance in Hollywood and the networks to support that.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Great
  • Friends
  • American

• After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Future
  • Support
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