Barack Obama Quotes

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• You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Life
  • Think
  • Yourself

• Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.

  

  Ferdinand Christian Baur
  • History
  • Me
  • Philosophy

• The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • God
  • Look
  • Him

• If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Food

• Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.

  

  Adam Braun
  • People
  • Long
  • High

• I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Acting
  • Historian
  • Confusing

• I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Business
  • Pretty
  • Dream

• If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Night
  • Wall
  • Write

• Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Trying
  • Win
  • Forest

• The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Development
  • Socialism

• There are people for whom Rangers Football Club is their entire way of life.

  

  Walter Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Football

• Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • World
  • Live
  • Children

• I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Different
  • Want

• We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Experience
  • Control
  • Choose

• Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Time
  • Long
  • Today

• Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
  • Great
  • Passion
  • Creative

• It's really crazy to be 36 years old and to have been doing something for 25 years.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Crazy
  • Doing
  • Old

• We're not Seattle East. We're our own Atlanta, and there are definitely things I learned from Coach Carroll. He had probably the single biggest influence on my coaching career.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Career
  • Single
  • Influence

• I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own.

  

  Dido Armstrong
  • Strong
  • Independent

• To a young actor: How tall are you without your horse? Six foot, seven inches. Never mind the six feet. Let's talk about the seven inches!

  

  Mae West
  • Mind
  • Horse

• The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Political
  • Culture
  • City

• The teachers unions are the clearest example of a group that has lost its way. Whenever anyone dares to offer a new idea, the unions protest the loudest. Their attitude was memorably expressed by a longtime president of the American Federation of Teachers: He said, quote, 'When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of children.'

  

  Albert Shanker
  • Children
  • School
  • American

• Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
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