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

• On my first day in office as President Quavo, I'd move my whole family into the White House. Second, I'd pull all the troops back. Third, I'd raise the minimum wage to a good, nice amount so people get paid.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • People
  • Good
  • Family

• Sometimes I think that we are living in a simulation controlled by the reigns of a destructive child who often gets bored or distracted, leaving us trapped inside feedback loops for years at a time.

  

  Amber Giles
  • Living
  • Trapped
  • Simulation

• I use men's skis because, honestly, they work better for me. They're longer, they're stiffer, they're harder to turn - but at the same time, they're much more stable.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Time
  • Work
  • Men

• Now I'm searching for a slightly overweight, single, childless woman who doesn't have a date and isn't too depressing to be around. It's getting harder to find a girlfriend than a boyfriend.

  

  Cathy Guisewite
  • Woman
  • Find
  • Girlfriend

• It's wrong that members of Congress can purchase luxury airfare with taxpayer money when many families in my district and across the county are struggling to make ends meet.

  

  Raul Ruiz
  • Wrong
  • Congress
  • Families

• 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