Barack Obama Quotes

One of the challenges of a democratic government is making sure that even in the midst of emergencies and passions, we make sure that rule of law and the basic precepts of justice and liberty prevail.

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• I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • House
  • Very
  • Directions

• I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Dream
  • Woman
  • Matter

• The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.

  

  Rafer Johnson
  • People
  • Kids
  • Opportunity

• Whatever your political affiliation may be, whether you are a conservative or liberal, we should all be bound by the belief that we need to support the troops.

  

  Candace Kita
  • May
  • Political
  • Support

• I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Game
  • Myself
  • Year

• I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Always
  • Been
  • Enthusiastic

• I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • World
  • Power
  • Hope

• I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Daily
  • Week
  • Pressure

• Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • People
  • Great
  • Science

• I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Because
  • Keep
  • Annoying

• Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Music
  • Literature
  • Theatre

• In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Kind
  • Experiences
  • Shock

• What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Never
  • Plant
  • Weed

• I'm a genuine person - I will never promote something I don't believe in.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Believe
  • Person
  • Genuine

• I can only hope that my future movies will do well.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Movies

• I once had someone say to me in an interview, 'You are more ugly on the screen than in real life.'

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Life
  • Real
  • Me

• I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Long
  • Remember
  • I Can

• Despite recent speculation in the media, and after difficult but sincere consideration, I have decided not to direct 'Catching Fire.' As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make, because of the fixed and tight production schedule.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Fire

• I think I'm a much better father as an older man than I was with my first kids. Occasionally, I have to yell at the little guys, but they don't take me seriously. 'Listen to the old guy,' they say. 'Isn't he great? He's mad.'

  

  Kris Kristofferson
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Father

• And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Life
  • Children
  • Future

• If you want to uncover problems you don't know about, take a few moments and look closely at the areas you haven't examined for a while. I guarantee you problems will be there.

  

  Bob Parsons
  • Moments

• A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Justice
  • Mercy

• The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day I began trying to write songs. I've always had a lot to say. I'd always written poems.

  

  Adam Goldberg
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Song

• One of the challenges of a democratic government is making sure that even in the midst of emergencies and passions, we make sure that rule of law and the basic precepts of justice and liberty prevail.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Law
  • Government
  • Passion