Barack Obama Quotes

I’m not denouncing the church, and I’m not interested in people who want me to denounce the church. It’s not a church worthy of denouncing.

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• I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Diet
  • Constantly
  • Strict

• Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • You
  • Kind
  • Seeing

• I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • Control
  • Best

• You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Day
  • Singing
  • Cold

• It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Live
  • Home
  • Child

• All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.

  

  Zendaya
  • Dad
  • Point
  • Brothers

• It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Character
  • Pretty
  • Support

• I am a just man.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Man

• A lot of people think that to make it as a model you just need to be pretty and slim, but they're wrong. There's a lot of hard work involved. You have to be very focused, know what kind of work you're aiming for.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • People
  • Work
  • Pretty

• I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Me
  • Deal
  • Someone

• I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Up
  • Wish
  • Morning

• I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Acting
  • Place
  • Opera

• E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • War
  • Fighting
  • See

• I was doing a tour of the 'Batman' live stage production, and I challenged the cast to join me to run. One time, we were running in Switzerland just before Christmas, and it was heavy snow. Another time, we were running down the Seine in Paris on Christmas Day, and we all had Santa hats on.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Time
  • Live
  • Running

• Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Life
  • Real
  • Stand

• I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Age
  • Goal

• I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Getting
  • Awards
  • Presents

• Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Choice
  • Miserable
  • Motivate

• I've always wanted to race cars, ever since I was a young boy, as I think a lot of guys have.

  

  Paul Walker
  • Boy

• The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.

  

  J. Irwin Miller
  • Money
  • Personal
  • Manners

• Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Life
  • Good
  • Knowledge

• I am satisfied it has strengthened my hand tremendously. Nobody but a fool would disregard the kind of result we witnessed today.

  

  Ian Smith
  • Today
  • Hand
  • Fool

• As an artist, I feel so fortunate to be able to learn from all these great musicians that came before me, when some people have nobody that came before them.

  

  Kiesa Rae Ellestad
  • People
  • Great

• I’m not denouncing the church, and I’m not interested in people who want me to denounce the church. It’s not a church worthy of denouncing.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Church