Barack Obama Quotes

I wonder, sometimes, whether men and women in fact are capable of learning from history--whether we progress from one stage to the next in an upward course or whether we just ride the cycles of boom and bust, war and peace, ascent and decline.

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• Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Surgery
  • Plastic Surgery

• I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!

  

  Ted Allen
  • Good
  • Real
  • House

• Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Time
  • Day
  • Woman

• I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.

  

  Usher
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Morning

• I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Work
  • Money
  • Future

• Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Band
  • Favorite
  • Jersey

• No access to me, nor my staff, will ever affect what we do to protect consumers of the state of Florida.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Me
  • Will
  • Consumers

• When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • World
  • Work
  • Dream

• An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Why
  • You
  • Artist

• Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Children
  • Parents

• There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • More
  • Speech
  • Contradiction

• When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Children
  • Friends

• PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Up
  • Children
  • School

• It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • People
  • Nature
  • Just

• Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Society
  • Face
  • Celebrate

• I've met Bob Dylan. We did one of those non-handshake handshakes. I was with all guys, and he shook hands with all of them, and then they said, 'And this is Kate,' and I put my hand out, and he didn't put his out. And then I took my hand away, and he put his out. It was one of those. We finally did shake. And then I fainted!

  

  Kate Moss
  • Hand
  • Hands
  • Said

• I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • Work
  • Love
  • Would

• I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Important
  • Health
  • Sports

• I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Like
  • Rock
  • Classic

• I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • House
  • Best
  • Animals

• What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

  

  Anais Nin
  • Real
  • Friendship

• Prayer is continual abandonment to God.

  

  Sadhu Sundar Singh
  • God
  • Christian
  • Prayer

• I wonder, sometimes, whether men and women in fact are capable of learning from history--whether we progress from one stage to the next in an upward course or whether we just ride the cycles of boom and bust, war and peace, ascent and decline.

  

  Barack Obama
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