Barack Obama Quotes

As citizens, we understand that it is not about what America may do for us. It's about what can be done by us, together.

Barack Obama

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• It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• I've called myself the Pied Piper, I've called myself the Weatherman, I've called myself Kellz, I've called myself a lot of things, changing the name, switching it up, just flipping, remixing. But never to harm anybody. Never to make a deep statement for people to dig into and figure it out.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Up
  • Myself

• I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Different
  • Thought
  • Chance

• There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Very
  • Days
  • Humanitarian

• If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Know
  • Always
  • Try

• The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Time
  • Great
  • Fun

• Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money away, and then you can live with much more freedom.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • World
  • Live
  • Money

• Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Yourself

• The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • God
  • Faith
  • Sister

• You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • You
  • Know
  • Boy

• The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Children
  • You
  • Talk

• It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?

  

  Venus Williams
  • Work
  • Love
  • Job

• Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • World
  • Myself
  • Years

• Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Important
  • Heart
  • Everything

• While conducting a conventional war in Iraq and Syria, ISIS has staged terrorist attacks on a global scale against the people from the countries who are fighting ISIS.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • War
  • Fighting

• I would really love to collaborate with Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.; artists that kind of make sense with me vocally. And in terms of style, I'm a very visual artist. I really love Pharell. I love people that really care about drums, and I like beat-heavy.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Style
  • Care

• I see Baccarat in major gateway cities like Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong and exotic resort locations.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Like
  • Paris
  • Hong Kong

• As opposed to putting too much confidence in myself, or in an image or a scene or a set of brushes, I really want to allow the oil paint to perform, to show me the things that it wants to do, beyond my imagination.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Me
  • Imagination
  • Confidence

• Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness.

  

  Breyten Breytenbach
  • America
  • Present
  • Enemy

• I really don't want you to think of Qatar as a hydrocarbon country alone. We know that hydrocarbons will come and go. But education will stay. It is the most important thing for us.

  

  Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
  • Important
  • Country
  • Education

• It would be relevant … to point out the sinister part played by speed, by belief in speed as a value, by, in a word, a kind of impatience that has had a profound effect in changing even the very rhythms of the life of the spirit for the worse.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Life
  • Value
  • Profound

• Most people don't realize that when we were producing 'Black Panther,' 'Quantum & Woody,' and 'Steel,' fairly few people were reading those titles. We were constantly threatened with cancellation.

  

  Christopher Priest
  • People
  • Black
  • Reading

• As citizens, we understand that it is not about what America may do for us. It's about what can be done by us, together.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Done
  • May
  • America