Barack Obama Quotes

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• Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Better
  • motivation

• When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different person, but every third girl is actually the same girl in a different outfit and makeup.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Different
  • Girl
  • Single

• Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• The Republican Party is terrific at determining how a program will impact the federal budget, but we're not nearly as good as the Democrats in explaining to people how our agenda will directly benefit them and their families.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • People
  • Good
  • Party

• God is my homeboy. Jesus is my homeboy.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • God
  • Jesus

• I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Child

• 'Brand-Dropping' is the term that the Kluger Agency coined to describe discreetly advertising by product mentioning in song, and we feel we can make this the way of the future without jeopardizing any artist's creative outlet or typical style.

  

  Adam Kluger
  • Future
  • Song
  • Style

• For quite a while, it didn't feel right. How could I feel joy when I lost the love of my life? I'm learning that those two things can co-exist. It will never be the same joy, but it doesn't mean there won't be joy.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Joy

• Those who are esteemed umpires of taste are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, and have an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Beautiful
  • Knowledge
  • Selfish

• A parent that's upset or resentful is not going to be a great paren.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Great
  • Parent
  • Upset

• I read a comment [about me] on YouTube that I thought would upset me — ‘Test pilot for pies’ — but I’ve always been a size 14-16 and been fine with it. I would only lose weight if it affected my health or sex life, which it doesn’t.

  

  Adele
  • Life
  • Health
  • Sex

• Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • American
  • Library
  • Citizenship

• We complain today that ministers do not know how to preach; but is it not equally true that our congregations do not know how to hear?

  

  J. I. Packer
  • True
  • Today
  • Complaining

• There are two sorts of sick consciences, those that are not aware enough of sin and those that are not aware enough of pardon.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Sick
  • Sin
  • Two

• [Grew up in Hawaii] that gave [Barack Obama] a kind of optimism, an ability to see things, you know, and frankly, an ability to trust, you know, in his fellow, you know, white countrymen in a way that I, for instance, you know, and the vast majority of black people I know never really could.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Up
  • Black

• By the time I got to Harvard, I feel like I knew who I was, and my job there was to throw as much against the wall as possible, to see what would stick.

  

  Baratunde Thurston
  • Time
  • Job
  • Wall

• No man has any influence or power for good when angry.

  

  J. Golden Kimball
  • Good
  • Power
  • Angry

• If I could create my own utopia, it would be this genderless world where we didn't have to talk about it.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • World
  • Would Be
  • Utopia

• Creativity is an attempt to resolve a conflict generated by unexpressed biological impulses, such that unfulfilled desires are the driving force of the imagination, and they fuel our dreams and daydreams.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Imagination
  • Creativity
  • Dreams

• I met lots of people who felt it was important to give voice to immigrants and refugees. Once I started working in journalism, I found more opportunities. One great benefit is traveling and meeting interesting people. As a journalist, you can call up anyone and ask to interview them, meet them, and learn things.

  

  Nguyen Qui Duc
  • Voice
  • Opportunities
  • Journalist

• God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • God
  • Power

• The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Children
  • Age
  • Inspiring

• We reaffirm that on days like this, there are no Republicans or Democrats. We are Americans, united in concern for our fellow citizens.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Citizens
  • Inspiring
  • Days Like This