Barack Obama Quotes
My central focus is what are we doing to protect the American people and the American homeland? Afghanistan and Pakistan are critical elements in that process.Barack Obama
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
Patrice Motsepe -
The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
When you read about the best places to work, it's never about salary; it's about catered lunches, the daycare - it's the cool stuff that matters.
Paige Craig -
Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
Fedor Emelianenko
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
Imran Amed -
Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
Zora Neale Hurston -
I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
J. P. Donleavy -
The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
Salman Rushdie -
When I was a kid, they used to say, 'Oh man, you don't ever wanna leave New York.' I don't ever want to stay in New York!
Mandy Patinkin
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
Pablo Sandoval -
Writing for TV entails saying every dumb idea that comes into your head to a room of people. And doing so with the confidence that it doesn't make you look like an idiot.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
Yoko Ono -
Obama promised a return to competence and confidence and asked the nation to believe again that the government could do big things well. In the end, he got his big thing, a once-in-a-generation revision to the basic social compact, a commitment of health coverage to nearly all Americans. He has yet to prove he can do it well.
Nancy Gibbs -
We should reserve the notion of 'morality' for the ways in which we can affect one another's experience for better or worse. Some people use the term 'morality' differently, of course, but I think we have a scientific responsibility to focus the conversation so as to make it most useful.
Sam Harris -
When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Madame de Stael
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Wherever women succeed, businesses will succeed.
Martha McSally -
I've seen other comics, with great pleasure, watching their own specials, and I don't know how or why they do it.
Janeane Garofalo -
I actually play piano and violin, but I don't have a passion for it. It didn't make me wake up in the morning wanting to do it, or go to bed thinking about it.
Ellen Hollman -
There are a lot of other people that really play a significant role in helping you become an Olympian.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee -
There used to be an old joke in role-playing circles-it isn’t funny these days-that there were only a thousand real people in the UK-everybody else was a non-player character. Now it’s pretty much the reverse.
Charles Stross -
My central focus is what are we doing to protect the American people and the American homeland? Afghanistan and Pakistan are critical elements in that process.
Barack Obama