Barack Obama Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
-
Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.
-
I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
-
You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.
-
I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
-
The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
-
Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
-
We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.
-
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
-
Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
-
It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.
-
To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
-
Personally, becoming a mother has been such a rewarding and wonderful experience. However, at times it has also been a huge challenge. Even for me who has support at home that most mothers do not.
-
That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
-
I believe we are our own inner hand - the godly power resides within each of us to create the lives we desire - no matter what the challenges!
-
I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.
-
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
-
I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
-
What I don't like is talking points.
-
The public so often want to freeze the artist in a moment in time when they were at their peak, and they want the artist to revisit it over and over again as if it was something authentic.
-
My day typically starts with an early-morning walk through Central Park. It's a nice moment of calm before my routine starts.
-
I've been left at the altar now a couple of times.
