Barack Obama Quotes
Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.
Quotes to Explore
-
But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.
-
I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
-
If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
-
I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
-
When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
-
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
-
I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
-
The more of what our music does violates the premise of its format that it's presented in, the better. So, hearing our music in the supermarket, a Muzak version, is great.
-
That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
-
World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
-
I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.
-
Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
-
I don't know what to do when I'm not working. I lose my mind if I'm not constantly doing something.
-
I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
-
'Sairat' is a film I absolutely loved. I have great regard for the movie and its film-maker. The movie blew my mind.
-
There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
-
If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
-
What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.
-
I used to work in kitchens, doing 12 or more hours a day of physical labor, so today, eight to 12 hours of cooking, chatting or filming feels like a vacation. When I have a scheduled 'day off,' I spend several hours writing, then I clean until I crash from fatigue. I don't relax well.
-
I read my eyes out and can't read half enough. … The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.
-
Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike, based on laws of physics that you don't understand, in a new universe. So having written one novel does nothing for you when you have to write the second one.
-
In dialogue scenes, my favorite moments are when people aren't talking because you can cut to the heart of the matter much more quickly, often with a look. People hide things in words. When you don't have words to hide things in, it becomes much more direct and much more immediate of a connection.
-
Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.
