Barack Obama Quotes

I just want to repeat that there's nothing that we've proposed that would make it harder for you to purchase a firearm.

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• The whole Hollywood thing where people want to put me into this 'quirky-fashionista, daughter of' category makes me mad because it's promoting something that I don't believe in, and it's not who I am.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Hollywood
  • Promoting
  • Fashionista

• To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Singer
  • Heritage
  • Wales

• Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.

  

  Sallust
  • Great
  • Small
  • Fall

• You get steely nerves playing poker.

  

  Nate Silver
  • You
  • Playing
  • Poker

• Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Things
  • Popular
  • Moment

• The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Technology

• Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Place
  • Matters

• The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Book
  • Words
  • Nothing

• It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Time
  • World
  • Space

• If you can't move the audience, they don't want you.

  

  Teddy Pendergrass
  • Want
  • You
  • Move

• Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis.

  

  Val Guest
  • Man
  • Poison
  • Location

• I was in better shape when I went into boot camp than when I came out.

  

  Kai Ryssdal
  • Better
  • Shape
  • Out

• I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea.

  

  Oliver North
  • Money
  • Support
  • Thought

• I don't think my father considered allowing a teenager to follow his dreams was necessarily good parenting, or even parenting. I think he thought I was a teenager with teenage impulses. I'm pretty sure he knew that if he just let me follow those impulses, it would wind up being very expensive and perhaps even life-endangering.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me, the really effective ones are being presented by expert storytellers.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Effective
  • Storyteller
  • Expert

• I'm always honest.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • Always
  • Honest

• As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • Father
  • Boy
  • Wishes

• It's kind of beating a dead horse if you're talking about going out and saying wrestling's fake, or this or that. People don't want to hear that. They want to hear, they wanted to find an inside story.

  

  Owen Hart
  • People
  • Horse
  • Fake

• Being empowered includes developing the powerful qualities that lead human beings to cultivate wellness and healing. And those are the same qualities that enhance all relationships on earth and reduce stress (which seems to be the largest precursor to disease)-gentle ness, calmness, patience, humility, compassion, and gratitude.

  

  Bryan Kest
  • Earth
  • Relationship
  • Stress

• I was incredibly impressed with HOTorNOT, because it was the first time that someone had designed a website where anyone could upload content that everyone else could view. That was a new concept because up until that point, it was always the people who owned the website who would provide the content.

  

  Jawed Karim
  • View
  • Content
  • Website

• I have assigned many of my father's basses to students, without endangering their lives. Also, they do no harm to the fingers.

  

  Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
  • Father
  • Students
  • Fingers

• I am excited to run in the community where my wife and I work, where my daughters graduated and my son attends high school, where my family goes to synagogue, and where I have spent so much time working for and with the people of South Florida.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I just want to repeat that there's nothing that we've proposed that would make it harder for you to purchase a firearm.

  

  Barack Obama
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