Barack Obama Quotes
Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.
Quotes to Explore
-
Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvement, so if I were to see any of my films, like 'Dhoom,' I might say... 'It would have been better if...' or 'had it been...' and this is all about evolving.
-
When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.
-
I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
-
All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
-
For heaven's sakes, in the newspaper days, when we had competing newspapers, and the newsstands sale was as important as the circulation - as the agreed-upon circulation, whatever you call that - in those days, why, gosh, the sensationalism was tremendous.
-
Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
-
I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.
-
I know that, as a comedian, I've made great strides because I've worked as hard as a person can work at being at least wildly amusing.
-
We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
-
I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
-
I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
-
I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
-
'Heartbeats' is a film on people magnifying and subliming reality when they're in love. Hence the overstylized look, the aesthetics, the robes, the dresses, the vintage, hipster-ish look: All of this is voluntary. I'm not a hipster. I'm not!
-
I'm not a huge fan of my work.
-
My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.
-
My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.
-
I'm gonna drop fitty. I'm gonna drop fitty pounds. How many quarter-pounders with cheeses is that? I'm gonna drop 200 quarter-pounder with cheeses.
-
I listen to a lot of jazz. I'm a big Sinatra geek. I love Chet Baker.
-
Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.
-
I think naturally you want to judge things.
-
For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.
-
This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.
-
He was once our trumpeter, now his bugle's dumb, Pile your arms beneath it, for the owlet light is come, We'll wander through the roses where we marched of old with Peterkin, We'll search the summer sunset where the Hybla beehives hum, And - if we meet a fairy there - we'll ask for news of Peterkin.
-
Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.
