Barack Obama Quotes

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?

Barack Obama

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ControlThinkYouKnowUnderstand

I have been on shop floors. I have talked to a lot of the companies that create jobs in South Carolina and across the country. And what they want is less regulation.

Jim DeMint

CountryCreateWantSouth Carolina

Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.

Jocko Willink

LeadershipFreedomDisciplineFinding

I had no doubts I could go to the pole. I may not be as strong, but I make up for physical strength in other areas, like steadiness and not panicking under stress.

Ann Bancroft

StrengthStressStrongGoUpMay

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.

Jean Piaget

EducationKnowledgeChildrenBest

My father had nine children, and when I had my first, he said, 'None of my kids got up in the middle of the night.' And I remember thinking, 'You didn't get up in the middle of the night! Every kid gets up in the middle of the night!'

Rosemarie DeWitt

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I think it's more difficult to live without a religion, definitely.

Michel Houellebecq

LiveReligionThinkMoreDifficult

The way to Everest is not a Yellow Brick Road.

Jon Krakauer

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Through adopting radical extremism, some young men who previously felt humiliated and emasculated by their peers can now feel powerful and intimidating - and gain status, attention from young women, and the comradeship and solidarity of other young men like themselves.

Deeyah Khan

WomenMenFeelAttentionPowerful

We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.

Dean Koontz

EvilWorldLookingBehaviorTrue

I love working with Rashida Jones. We just have so much fun together.

Brad Goreski

LoveTogetherFunWorkingJustMuch

Life is one big transition.

Willie Stargell

LifeTransitionBig

The point of our demographics is that we're not having as many children and the population is stagnant, if not declining. So without immigration, we're not going to have the population.

Susan Oliver

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