Barack Obama Quotes

The world doesn't just revolve around you. There's a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit.

Barack Obama

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• We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

  

  Warren Weaver
  • Science
  • Ignorance
  • View

• Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Know
  • Personality
  • Survival

• To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Fun
  • Gay
  • Pride

• Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Wife
  • Soup
  • Sharing

• Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • People
  • Change
  • Best

• If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.

  

  Larry King
  • Mind
  • Friend
  • Doubt

• There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Actions
  • Without
  • Protest

• Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Future
  • Overpopulation

• People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.

  

  Inga Cadranel
  • People
  • Like
  • Drive

• I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Experience
  • Religious
  • Never

• We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • System
  • Cooperation

• I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the Carter Family. I've never suffered stage fright.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Look

• If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • May
  • Style
  • Failure

• If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Believe
  • Single

• The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Today
  • Information

• My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Music
  • Romantic
  • Shines

• McCain I'd vote against under any circumstance.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Vote
  • Against
  • Circumstance

• I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Family
  • Like
  • Others

• The way that you parent, you ease into every stage.

  

  Joel Madden Good Charlotte

• There's a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don't know what in the world I'm going to do. It's free-floating anxiety. In my case, though, this is over by lunch the first day of shooting.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Movie

• In my home country, which is one of the oldest kingdoms in the world, you're born with the title. You don't get elected. I don't know how the king and queen of Denmark would respond if they suddenly had to do a speech, if the people would vote for them. I don't know how that would end up.

  

  Pilou Asbaek
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• While everyone's experience of oppression is different and complicated and often overlapping, I really believe that if you have privilege, you need to learn as much as you can about the world beyond yourself.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • World
  • Believe
  • Different

• Like Billy Graham said, "It is the Holy Spirit's job to convict, God's job to judgr, and my job to love." Our world is full of disagreement. But thank God that our loving acceptance of people doesn't have to be built on agreeing with them. Our loving acceptance of them is built on thr cross.

  

  Brian Houston
  • World
  • Disagreement
  • Billy Graham

• The world doesn't just revolve around you. There's a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Country
  • Empathy