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

• We are not in prison so we are free and happy? No. We're in a different kind of prison in this life. We have to confront it, and we have to liberate Istanbul and ourselves, as well.

  

  Burhan Sonmez
  • Life
  • Free
  • Prison

• Just as the true fruit of an apple tree is not an apple, but another tree; the true fruit of a small group is not a new Christian, but another group; the true fruit of a church is not a new group, but a new church; the true fruit of a leader is not a follower, but a new leader; the true fruit of an evangelist is not a convert, but new evangelists. Whenever this principle is understood and applied, the results are dramatic.

  

  Ed Stetzer
  • Church
  • Christian
  • Tree

• The love that exists between people who share religious values and experiences can be the most satisfying and unifying force this side of the solid, happy family.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • People
  • Family
  • Love

• I face the world as it is and cannot stand idle in the face of threats to the American people. For make no mistake, evil does exist in the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • American

• Nature is silent only to those who know not how to interrogate her—to the man of inquisitive mind she offers ample instruction.

  

  Charles Willson Peale
  • Nature
  • Offers
  • Instruction

• 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
  • Harder
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  • Purchase