Barack Obama Quotes
We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.Barack Obama
Quotes to Explore
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
Vanilla Ice -
At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
Karen Bender -
I am who I am.
J. B. Pritzker -
Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When I was a kid, I used to have to take the garbage out at night on Wednesdays. I lived out in the country. I'd take the garbage out, and I used to pretend that I was the only person in the whole world, except for one other person, and he was looking for me.
Taylor Kinney -
Produce great men, the rest follows.
Walt Whitman -
Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
Samantha Power
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
Utada Hikaru -
Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
R. W. Apple, Jr. -
I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
Rachelle Lefevre -
I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.
Yvette Nicole Brown -
Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
Walt Whitman -
In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
P. J. O'Rourke
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
Jack Nicklaus -
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
J. B. Priestley -
Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
Karl Jaspers -
I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.
Yara Shahidi -
To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
La'Porsha Renae -
I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
Barbara Bush
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
Rachel Johnson -
In a way, we women take on more than we need to sometimes.
Shania Twain -
I see a light in the kitchen. Let us not deprive Molly any longer of the chance to deplore how thin you are.
Joanne Rowling -
I am an undiplomatic diplomat.
Adolfo Aguilar Zinser -
We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
Barack Obama