Barack Obama Quotes
I'm blown away. I'm flabbergasted the president [Barack Obama] made the phone call to Rouhani after 30-plus, `79, 33 years or so. And there's a reason we haven't negotiated with Iran, because they're state-sponsored terrorists. They're the central bank for terrorism around the world.Barack Obama
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
Warren Weaver -
I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
Illeana Douglas -
Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
J. M. Coetzee -
Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I am enjoying the fact that you are you.'
N. T. Wright -
People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.
Laura Amy Schlitz -
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl Jung
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It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.
Barbara Corcoran -
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
Quintilian -
'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
Gail Carson Levine -
I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
Taylor Swift -
I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
Patrick Wang -
I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob.
Aby Rosen
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Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
Walter Cronkite -
I did tennis for a while, and I was actually on the volleyball team for a minute.
Kacey Musgraves -
When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.
Ian Hart -
Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.
Rachel Tucker -
It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
Natalia Vodianova -
There's no way I'm going to stand up for bad ingredients. We love seasonal ingredients. It's a false dichotomy to say that modern cooking is at odds with that, but some people want to have a great ingredient and no technique.
Nathan Myhrvold
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With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.
Ma Ying-jeou -
Future medicine will be the medicine of frequencies.
Albert Einstein -
On a professional side, you've got a tough problem to fix, Geoff Miller's going to do it, and he's always going to do it to very high standards, and he's always going to be on the side of right. He's always talking about 'what right looks like' - just a phrase he would always use.
Jack Keane -
None of our family businesses were focused on technology. It was '93 when I came out of law school, and the Internet was taking hold. So I started New World Ventures.
J. B. Pritzker -
I'm blown away. I'm flabbergasted the president [Barack Obama] made the phone call to Rouhani after 30-plus, `79, 33 years or so. And there's a reason we haven't negotiated with Iran, because they're state-sponsored terrorists. They're the central bank for terrorism around the world.
Barack Obama