Barack Obama Quotes

Nobody's cooler than my two girls. They just seem to take whatever comes with, you know - happiness and - steadiness. And they're loving school. They're making friends... and - they've already joined some clubs. And Sasha, you know - I think maybe to endear - myself to her, she - she decided she wanted to join a basketball team. So - what more could I want?

Barack Obama

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• The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Student
  • Restaurant
  • Reviews

• I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.

  

  Paige Craig
  • Vision
  • Talk
  • Forward

• Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Road
  • Language
  • Creator

• And apparently things like a Vindaloo curry are out for the rest of my life, or at least a long time.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Long
  • America
  • Eyes

• In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Leader
  • Run
  • United States

• I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Good
  • Best
  • Thing

• Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.

  

  Garth Hudson
  • Music
  • Country
  • Rock

• I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Judge
  • Television
  • Indian

• There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Travel
  • Try
  • Tribe

• I was a kid living in New Jersey, who – I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so that came before music for me. But I started playing drums just as a hobby, and I wasn't even really into jazz that much.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Music
  • Me
  • Living

• The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Women
  • Confidence
  • Office

• About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Philosophy
  • Subject
  • Less

• In my opinion we are at the limit now, and 17 races is really too much. With all the testing that we do now, it means we're always on the bike and it's quite difficult.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Opinion
  • Bike
  • Too Much

• We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Time
  • End
  • Perseverance

• I would really like to play someone contemporary, as I've done lots of period pieces. I would love to play an American bimbo or a grimy Londoner. But I'm probably more suited in people's minds to playing a corseted victim.

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Play
  • Like
  • Victim

• When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Black
  • Dad
  • Black-and-white

• There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Think
  • Military
  • Fiction

• I grew up partially around Stone Mountain, Georgia, and in that part of the country, there was always this aura of mythology and palpable sense of otherness about being a Southerner.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Up
  • Country
  • Mountain

• Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Good
  • Marriage

• I've played every beer joint tavern from New York City out to PasadenaEvery corn dog fair and rodeoAnd sold out every basketball arenaI like to get down with my boys in Afghanistan and Baghdad city tooI am a red, white and blue blood graduate of Honkytonk U.

  

  Toby Keith
  • City
  • Dog
  • Red

• It's an unwritten rule - girl friends' boyfriends are off limits, even after they break up.

  

  Kristin Cavallari
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Girl

• I can remember when I was 24, and I broke up with my first serious girlfriend for the first time. She was a very nice person, but she had a little bit of a tendency toward melodrama... Her response was to take the key to my apartment off of her key chain and hand it back to me.

  

  Kenneth Lonergan
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• Nobody's cooler than my two girls. They just seem to take whatever comes with, you know - happiness and - steadiness. And they're loving school. They're making friends... and - they've already joined some clubs. And Sasha, you know - I think maybe to endear - myself to her, she - she decided she wanted to join a basketball team. So - what more could I want?

  

  Barack Obama
  • School
  • She
  • Friends