Barack Obama Quotes

Big nations should not bully smaller ones. Disputes should be resolved peacefully.

Barack Obama

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• I don't think there was a definite day, but it would have been around my mid-20s. I was always interested in the media side of things. When we travelled with England away, or to World Cups, I used to sit with journos while they wrote their copy.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Day
  • Media

• The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That, I think, is valuable.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Long
  • Information
  • Speed

• We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Live
  • Kids
  • Health

• Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Always
  • Now
  • Been

• The ties between the Obama White House and the hip-hop community are genuine.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • House
  • Community
  • White

• I know every line to 'The Little Rascals.'

  

  Banks
  • Know
  • Line
  • Rascals

• If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Formula
  • Torn
  • Hiroshima

• I speak 'with absolute certainty' only so far as my own personal belief is concerned. Those who have not the same warrant for their belief as I have, would be very credulous and foolish to accept it on blind faith. Nor does the writer believe any more than her correspondent and his friends in any 'authority' let alone 'divine revelation'!

  

  Helena Blavatsky
  • Believe
  • Friends
  • Faith

• A coherent typeface is an essential part of a coherent branding strategy.

  

  Bruno Maag

• For the longest time, I was always like a guy that people would think they went to high school with. They'd be like, 'How do I know you?' After, we'd play a guessing game. I'd say, 'I'm an actor,' and they'd go, 'Oh, what have you been in?' I'd list my credits, and they wouldn't really remember me.

  

  Chris Messina
  • People
  • Time
  • School

• Quite a few books about decluttering are published in a year.

  

  Marie Kondo

• I've probably put up with more criticism than a lot of people out there. At the end of the day, you block out everything, especially with your personal life.

  

  Lleyton Hewitt
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• If you don't have a valentine, hang out with your girlfriends, don't go looking for someone. When it's right, they'll come to you.

  

  Tara Leigh Patrick

• I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.

  

  Antonia Fraser
  • Writing
  • Trying

• I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.

  

  Danny Boyle
  • Music
  • Dance

• 'A long white dress that starts under the breast and travels on interminably down - so their legs are entirely mysterious - they could have one leg or two inside that dress... A Jane Austen woman could be incredibly passionate inside that dress.'

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Long
  • Mysterious

• If you ask me if I'm okay again, I'm going to smack myself in the face just to punish you.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Face
  • Punishment

• During the campaign [Donald Trump] talked about reaching out to African- American voters in particular. He talked about inner cities in a way that did offend some people. Lot of Democrats. Some African- Americans of saying what have you got to lose.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • People
  • American
  • Trump

• People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • People
  • Live
  • Power

• I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Soul
  • Literature
  • Victory

• Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Small
  • Peace
  • Nations

• Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Die
  • Nations
  • Invasion

• A strong-willed child - a strong-willed child, more than anyone else, needs to learn to use emotion and discussion to resolve issues. That's the last child in the whole world you want to hit.

  

  Sean Hannity
  • World
  • Children
  • Emotion

• Big nations should not bully smaller ones. Disputes should be resolved peacefully.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Nations
  • Resolve
  • Disputes