Barack Obama Quotes
There's something about these steps and thinking about everybody who's walked here and all the business that's been done here.
Quotes to Explore
-
My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
-
No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
-
If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.
-
I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
-
I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.
-
There's still racism. Western Europe... has taken the native cultures of the Americas, the African cultures, the Asian civilization and lumped them together into The Others.
-
The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it because I think I have a weird barometer in the sense that some of the characters I've cared about the most in movies are characters that are often thought of as despicable.
-
You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
-
It seems every morning I wake up to face a list of 20 things to do, with time only to do 10, and somehow I always wind up squishing in 30.
-
Whether I'm a bit of an old soul or not, I am who I am, and that doesn't change, whether I'm with adults or with my friends.
-
Getting some distance allowed me to develop a hunger for India and to come back and explore it in a way I wouldn't have had I been living here. And that probably made me more political as well.
-
I didn't even know what a beauty editor was. It sounds like a fictional job if you think about it. You get to test lipstick and perfume and nail polish legitimately and call it work.
-
Even such is time, that takes in trustOur youth, our joys, our all we have,And pays us but with age and dust;Who in the dark and silent grave,When we have wandered all our ways,Shuts up the story of our days.But from this earth, this grave, this dust,My God shall raise me up, I trust!
-
Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings.
-
I think I'm the person who keeps friends from hitting 'send.' I've definitely helped people go through emails before sending them. I'm a good proofreader.
-
I've been playing piano since I was 7. I took 15 years of lessons. I've got a lot of miles on these hands.
-
The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.
-
I loved 'Gladiator' when I was young. Russell Crowe was a big inspiration; the fact that he plays my father in 'Noah' was amazing.
-
I don't hear any of the popular stuff unless it's good 'cause I pay no attention to popular culture, at all.
-
Chiropractic solved my neck and shoulder pains; it put me back on my feet. I think chiropractic is great!
-
What has become clear to me is that it is not the inherent nature of being gay that causes such a reduced life; it is, rather, the social circumstances around being gay: the perceptions of it and the cultural norms that it is said to violate. As some of those norms have changed, I have been able to be gay, to have a marriage, to have a family, and to have - if there is wood to knock on - a fortunate and happy life.
-
Toughest decision was early in my presidency when I ordered 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan. As somebody who had run to end a large troop presence overseas.
-
There's something about these steps and thinking about everybody who's walked here and all the business that's been done here.
