Barack Obama Quotes
I have not spoken to him directly. Here's the reason. Because my experience is, when you talk to a guy like a BP CEO, he's gonna say all the right things to me. I'm not interested in words. I'm interested in actions.
Quotes to Explore
-
The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
-
First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.
-
I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
-
I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
-
Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.
-
I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.
-
To portray not only a boxer but a boxer like Roberto Duran, I needed to understand all the difficulties and the pressures of the sport itself.
-
A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.
-
Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
-
I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones.
-
However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.
-
I'm not any kind of a bigot, I'm not.
-
To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
-
I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
-
I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
-
My wife watches me like a hawk.
-
You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.
-
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-
It's likely there was more than one perpetrator, ... It's hard for a single perpetrator to control two victims at the same time in a public place.
-
Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labour.
-
The danger in happiness - "Now everything is turning out right for me; from now on i'll love every turn of fate - Who wants to be my fate?
-
I'm the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can't ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last.
-
I have not spoken to him directly. Here's the reason. Because my experience is, when you talk to a guy like a BP CEO, he's gonna say all the right things to me. I'm not interested in words. I'm interested in actions.
