Barack Obama Quotes
As part of the coalition against ISIL, we are putting that terrorist network under tremendous pressure.
Quotes to Explore
-
There are as many ways to help another human being as there are people in need of help. For some, the urgent need is as basic as food and water. For others, it is an opportunity to develop a talent, realize an idea, and reach one's full potential.
-
We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black characters and women writers are put on 'girl books.'
-
My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra and Barry White.
-
But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.
-
I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
-
It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
-
Every sport has its own cast of characters.
-
I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.
-
As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
-
It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.
-
Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.
-
You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
-
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
-
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
-
As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.'
-
Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
-
It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end.
-
I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
-
If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
-
I think the most important thing for a listener is to realize that he, too, should not listen to music in a passive way; that if you sit in a concert hall and expect to be moved or taken off your seat by the music, it will not happen.
-
I used to love to create outfits, and I still do - I just don't have the time. How can you wear one thing and never wear it again? Even my wedding dress - I had a dress made that I could wear again. I'm a child of the depression, so I'm very, very practical.
-
I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
-
It could be Grammy night, Oscar night, whatever - I don't feel the pressure to be there.
-
As part of the coalition against ISIL, we are putting that terrorist network under tremendous pressure.
