Barack Obama Quotes

We don't have this huge footprint, we are less likely to be targeted as, you know, occupiers [in Afghanistan and Iraq].

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• I was very successful, and I graduated with honors. And then I called my dad, who still lives in London, and I said, 'Dad, thanks for college, but I'm going to go act now.' It didn't go over very well.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Dad
  • College
  • Successful

• I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Same
  • Intelligence
  • View

• People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • People
  • Think
  • Name

• My lifestyle had made me a walking time bomb.

  

  Jack Wild
  • Time
  • Me
  • Lifestyle

• I'm running for governor because I think we need to change things in Illinois.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Think
  • Change
  • Running

• For me, a great fantasy is real people, a world I recognise, human struggle and magic. You've got to have magic to make a fantasy work. But I like my magic to be subtle. I don't want magic coming out of the hands of wizards. I want it to be pervading, sinister somehow.

  

  Fiona McIntosh
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• I love art, but not in a cliched, luvvie way.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Art
  • Way
  • Cliched

• You should never marry a lot younger than you...never....it never works ...there is not a single case of its working..

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Single

• I like to make a difference in both places, ... We are a stronger team if I am on the field. I would like to let the guys who are used to be the DH, be the DH.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Team
  • Baseball
  • Difference

• As actors, the magic is in the almost spiritual experience to really enter another world, to really enter a belief of being in another person's shoes and to really take on their experiences as someone else has written them and imagined them. It's kind of a sacred thing. It's a very spiritual experience. That in itself for me is the main thing that keeps me coming back to it. I like to travel, but for me, this is the greatest travel.

  

  Karen Allen
  • World
  • Experience
  • Spiritual

• Everything seems simpler from a distance.

  

  Gail Tsukiyama
  • Distance
  • Simpler

• No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Important
  • Moments
  • Photography

• When we hear people talk of riches, honors and amusements of the world, let us remember that all things have an end, and let us then say: My God, I wish for You alone and nothing more.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • People
  • World
  • God

• I think it was not a bad idea to wrap Barack Obama in the mantle of Teddy Roosevelt. He`s been assuming a sort of progressive mantle, and he ticked off some large and systemic problems that this country faces.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Bad

• Summer School: Never stop learnin' if you want to stop earnin'. I'm reasonably sure there G's in learning and earning.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • School
  • Want
  • Stop

• Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping.

  

  Faith Baldwin
  • World
  • Men
  • Light

• People who annoy people are the luckiest people in the world.

  

  Howie Mandel
  • People
  • World

• Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall.

  

  Eleanor Clift
  • History
  • Lost
  • Fall

• The death toll associated with the invasion and occupation of Iraq is probably about 100,000 people, and may be much higher.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Death
  • Iraq
  • Occupation

• America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Policy
  • Afghanistan
  • Backbone

• A lot of (Kyle's) stories when he was back home in Texas, a lot of his own personal opinions about what he was doing in Iraq, how he viewed Iraqis. Some of what people have described as his racist tendencies towards Iraqis and Muslims when he was going on some of these, you know, killing sprees in Iraq on assignment. So I think there are issues... When he was involved in his - on assignments in terms of what he was doing. A lot of the description that has come out from his book and some of the terminology that he has used, people have described as racist.

  

  Ayman Mohyeldin
  • Book
  • Iraq
  • Racist

• We don't have this huge footprint, we are less likely to be targeted as, you know, occupiers [in Afghanistan and Iraq].

  

  Barack Obama
  • Iraq
  • Afghanistan
  • Footprint