Barack Obama Quotes

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.

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• I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Instrument

• Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Easy

• I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Want
  • Natural
  • Straight

• When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Young
  • Young People

• I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Life
  • Me
  • Couple

• Disinterring famous people has become a kind of sport in the Hispanic world. Before Cervantes, it happened to Evita, Che Guevara, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Pablo Neruda.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • People
  • World
  • Famous

• I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Done
  • Mother
  • Pretty

• San Francisco, coolest place ever.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Place
  • Ever
  • San Francisco

• The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Good
  • Democracy
  • Silence

• It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • True
  • Best
  • Succeed

• There are no free lunches in life. You have to earn it. I am paying my dues. People have accused me of having it easy because I am Amitabh Bachchan's son. Yes, I am his son, and I've never run away from it. I work hard to make him proud.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • Believe
  • Pretty
  • Me

• The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Life
  • Long
  • My Life

• I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Education
  • System
  • Repair

• Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Government
  • Students
  • Mercy

• There were so many groups that I had in college, but I was always the solo singer. But what made it so unusual back in the day was that I was a black girl playing with all these white musicians, and I was also singing rock music on top of it.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Music
  • Black
  • Girl

• If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Live
  • New York
  • Edgy

• The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Nice
  • Woman
  • Child

• Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and horror and fear.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Together
  • Fear
  • Sorrow

• Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an option; to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn't able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship.

  

  Trisha Yearwood
  • Up
  • Believe
  • May

• The actors I would like to work with are Julia Roberts, just because I've admired her work for a long time, well Brad Pitt. I think you know my reasons.

  

  Christine Flores
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.

  

  Chinua Achebe
  • Heart
  • May
  • Beautiful

• We're gonna get high, high, high, when we're low. The fires burn from better days. She scream why, oh why? I said I don't know!

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Why
  • She
  • High

• Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.

  

  Barack Obama
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  • May
  • High