Barack Obama Quotes

Teddy Roosevelt supported a progressive income tax. If I am sitting pretty and you've got a waitress who is making minimum wage plus tips, and I can afford it and she can't, what's the big deal for me to say, 'I'm going to pay a little bit more'? That is neighborliness.

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• Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Success
  • Me
  • Eating

• We take the show very seriously, but we don't take ourselves seriously.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Show
  • Take
  • Seriously

• Obviously, I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • High
  • Always
  • Quirky

• It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Yourself
  • Labor
  • Masses

• What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Up
  • Real
  • Want

• Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • People
  • Art
  • Looking

• When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Great
  • Book
  • Game

• Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Rock
  • Find
  • Piano

• If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Believe
  • You
  • Mistake

• If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.

  

  I. F. Stone
  • God
  • Trying
  • Problem

• My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Body
  • Hands
  • Feet

• In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Time
  • Long
  • Long Time

• When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Find
  • Fish

• As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Friends
  • Surround Yourself

• Many environmental battles are won by delaying a destructive project long enough to change the conversation - to allow new economic, political and social dynamics to emerge.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Long
  • Political
  • Change

• Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that's the least objectionable to them. They're not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they'll go to bed unhappy.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Work
  • Home
  • Forever

• Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Book
  • Well
  • Memoir

• I remember being totally enamored with Sid Caesar.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Remember
  • Being
  • I Remember

• To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Me
  • Easy
  • Cat

• Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.

  

  Anatole France
  • Jealousy

• I think it's very important for America that we're represented as promoters of peace, love, and understanding.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • Important
  • America
  • Peace

• She was a dark, unenduring little flower - yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things. In this he was mistaken.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
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  • Quality
  • Dark

• Well with girls I don't get no respect. I had a blind date. I waited two hours on the corner. A girl walked by. I said Are you Louise? She said, Are you Rodney? I said, Yeah. She said, I'm not Louise.

  

  Jack Roy
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  • Girl
  • Respect

• Teddy Roosevelt supported a progressive income tax. If I am sitting pretty and you've got a waitress who is making minimum wage plus tips, and I can afford it and she can't, what's the big deal for me to say, 'I'm going to pay a little bit more'? That is neighborliness.

  

  Barack Obama
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  • Pretty