Barack Obama Quotes

That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How do we get the black to see through the eyes of the white? Or the citizen to see through the eyes of the immigrant? Or the straight to see through the eyes of the gay? That has always been a struggle in our politics.

Barack Obama

• Book
• Father
• Black
• Eyes
• Struggle
• Gay
• Exercise
• Empathy

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• When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Trying
  • Funny
  • Taken

• I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Job

• My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Idea
  • Stand
  • Three

• I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Like
  • Often
  • Wizard

• Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Women
  • Health
  • Commitment

• I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Work
  • Real
  • Family

• I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America.

  

  Rand Paul
  • America
  • Weapons
  • Allow

• Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • People
  • American
  • Immigrant

• I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Song
  • Man
  • Dance

• You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.

  

  Tami Hoag
  • Yourself
  • Fight
  • Face

• I've had many ideas come from clients.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Ideas
  • Many
  • Clients

• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • Time
  • Find
  • Strange

• The latter 1940s and early '50s were a time of tense, explosive conflict, in the world at large and in the politics of our nation.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Time
  • World
  • Politics

• Usually, I just don't care what I look like. If it's cold, I'm, like, putting on whatever I have to to be warm.

  

  Zendaya
  • Care
  • Cold
  • Warm

• On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Man
  • Party
  • Day

• The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Fear
  • Kind
  • Unknown

• We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Future
  • Looking
  • Everyone

• Caltech was a meat grinder like I could never have imagined.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • Like
  • Never
  • Meat

• I was excited by the idea of playing a Nazi.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Idea
  • Playing
  • Excited

• Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

  

  Maurice Chevalier
  • Bad
  • Age

• At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred to him, and he was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and calculation and geometry and astronomy and draughts and dice, but his great discovery was the use of letters.

  

  Plato
  • God
  • Geometry
  • Astronomy

• I'm usually the one who creates most of my work. I have a lot of different ideas that I want to do, so I'm always like, 'Get on it, girl.'

  

  Keke Palmer
  • Work
  • Different
  • Girl

• I like representing different kinds of black people - showing they exist.

  

  Zazie Beetz
  • People
  • Black
  • Exist

• That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How do we get the black to see through the eyes of the white? Or the citizen to see through the eyes of the immigrant? Or the straight to see through the eyes of the gay? That has always been a struggle in our politics.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Book
  • Father
  • Black