Barack Obama Quotes

We are the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last to be able to do anything about it.

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• As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Healthy
  • Diet
  • Slow

• The truth is, Hillary Clinton's ideas create more income inequality. Why? Because bigger government creates crony capitalism. When you have a 70,000 page tax code, you've got to be very wealthy, very powerful, very well connected to dig your way through that tax code.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Why
  • Truth
  • Government

• A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Children
  • Fashion

• Access to capital is critical for small business success and crucial to our economic recovery. Without access to capital, many small companies are not able to maintain operations, let alone expand and create new jobs.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Success
  • Small

• Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I am enjoying the fact that you are you.'

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Sense

• When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Trying
  • Funny
  • Singing

• If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Long
  • Night
  • Relationship

• I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Taught
  • Knew
  • Quitting

• You can't change the market; the market just is.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • You
  • Change
  • Market

• The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about.

  

  Nana Visitor
  • Writing
  • Name
  • Point

• What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Should
  • Matter
  • Say

• Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Up
  • Will
  • Traffic

• The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Career
  • Control
  • Person

• Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Respect
  • Kind
  • Lie

• It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Good
  • Home
  • Help

• When you're me, when you're R. Kelly, everybody wants a piece of you, and if you don't give 'em a piece they'll find a way to get a piece of you one way or the other.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Way
  • Find
  • Get

• You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Father
  • You
  • Perfect

• I knew that I tend to always gravitate to the indie side of things.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Always
  • Things
  • Indie

• TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Good
  • Find
  • Difficult

• It could get tiresome, ... It kind of wore on me.

  

  Corey Dillon
  • Tiresome
  • Wore

• Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the pygmies declared that Jove himself was a pygmy.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Father
  • Judge
  • Forgiving

• Every generation thinks that they invented sex.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Sex
  • Generation
  • Invented

• Climate protection creates sustainability and jobs in the real economy - in construction, in the production of heavy machinery and in systems engineering.

  

  Sigmar Gabriel
  • Jobs
  • Economy
  • Protection

• We are the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last to be able to do anything about it.

  

  Barack Obama
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