Barack Obama Quotes
We choose hope over fear. We see the future not as something out of our control, but as something we can shape for the better through concerted and collective effort. We reject fatalism or cynicism when it comes to human affairs. We choose to work for the world as it should be, as our children deserve it to be.
Quotes to Explore
-
You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
-
We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
-
The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
-
Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.
-
I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.
-
Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
-
Blip.tv is growing its audience by forming partnerships with traditional TV manufacturers and a new breed of company in the set-top box market that lets consumers connect to the Internet via their televisions.
-
I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
-
Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
-
Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character.
-
There's a big difference between being privileged and being spoilt. My parents always said, 'Spoilt means ruined, and you're not ruined, just incredibly fortunate.'
-
Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
-
I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.
-
Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.
-
It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
-
I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
-
Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.
-
I'd love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets.
-
The public schools tend to teach little kids from when they are very young about the whole universe without God and that God cannot be in science. They are indoctrinating children in an atheistic religious view of things.
-
Everybody should have health care, on the one hand. But on the other hand, if you ask Americans, "Are you willing to pay for it?," they say no. So I've never been able to understand this contradiction.
-
The name of the show was 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,' not 'Philip and Viv of Bel-Air.' If you didn't want to walk away from the best job in the world over a petty issue, you accepted the way it was.
-
I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.
-
I'll never forget my first Art Basel.
-
We choose hope over fear. We see the future not as something out of our control, but as something we can shape for the better through concerted and collective effort. We reject fatalism or cynicism when it comes to human affairs. We choose to work for the world as it should be, as our children deserve it to be.
