Barack Obama Quotes

Right around my first year of college - I remember "Song of Solomon," by Toni Morrison, just moved me tremendously. The power of language and how it can peel back truths, bring things to the surface. So I learned a lot from fiction.

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• Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Government
  • Internet
  • Skills

• In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Time
  • Enemy
  • River

• The problem that I think is reasonable to assert about Fox and its coverage is that they make up stories out of whole cloth and then make a big deal out of them.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Up
  • Think
  • Problem

• People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Want
  • Need

• I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Enough
  • Dreams
  • Use

• It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Nice
  • Again
  • Be Nice

• We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.

  

  Harold Nicolson
  • Judge
  • Others
  • Ideals

• I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Career
  • Soldier
  • Been

• Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Children
  • Think

• We've got a great value proposition against Chromebooks, we are not ceding the market to anyone.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • Great
  • Value
  • Proposition

• The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Life
  • Great
  • Service

• The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Society
  • Best
  • Child

• My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from. I had to study the stars and figure where everything was and how I got here and all of those things.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Character
  • Space
  • Study

• We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

  

  E. B. White
  • Long
  • Joy
  • Laundry

• When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right hand knows that 0.3 seconds after I hit this key, I need to hit that one. And the right hand knows not to hit keys that the left hand is playing, so the hands do not collide.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Hand
  • Brain
  • Hands

• It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Eye
  • Stupid
  • Doing

• Mint is designed to put your finances on auto-pilot. Whether you log in or not, it will send you a weekly summary of your balances and biggest purchases, and how your investments and budgets are doing, along with sending you alerts on unusual spending and low balances.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • You
  • Doing
  • Will

• If we are really serious about preventing another crisis like the 2008 meltdown, we should simply ban complex financial instruments unless they can be unambiguously shown to benefit society in the long run.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Long
  • Society
  • Serious

• I'm probably a believer in abandoning too-big-to-fail firms or breaking them up in some way so that the system can try to take care of itself. I imagine you're not going to get there, and therefore, I suspect regulation is what's going to be required.

  

  Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • Up

• It is very difficult for any couple who are married if both people are ambitious. I don't know if it's just too hard to be married to a woman that wants to be a movie star.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Woman
  • Ambitious
  • Movie Star

• I think that the Pope has trust in every bishop that is appointed.

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • Trust

• To die, so young to die. No, no, not I, I love the warm sunny skies, light, song, shining eyes, I want no war, no battle cry, No, no, not I.

  

  Hannah Szenes
  • Song
  • Light
  • Skies

• Right around my first year of college - I remember "Song of Solomon," by Toni Morrison, just moved me tremendously. The power of language and how it can peel back truths, bring things to the surface. So I learned a lot from fiction.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power
  • Remember
  • Song